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...ic ingredient in the character of the Faun, that makes it so delightful an object to the human eye and to the frailty of the human heart. The being he... ...the scope and freedom of Hilda’s and mine. In painting there is no similar objection to the representation of brief snatches of time, —perhaps be- cau... ...a union with a cousin, the heir of another of that golden brotherhood; the object being to retain their vast accumulation of wealth within the family.... ...where there are glimpses, sketches, and half-developed hints of beings and objects grander and more beautiful than we can anywhere find in reality. Th... ...trongly marked contrast of shadow, is the first requisite to- wards seeing objects pictorially. Pencil-drawings were pinned against the wall or scatte... ...be supposed that a melancholy man would here make acquaintance with a grim philosophy. He should learn to bear patiently his individual griefs, that e...

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...re, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangl’d in Amorous Nets. Such object hath the power to soft’n and tame Severest temper, smooth the r... ...vial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abasht: Therefore with manlier objects we must try 225 His constancy, with such as have more shew Of ... ...d fulmin’d over Greece, 270 To Macedon, and Artaxerxes Throne; To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From Heaven descended to the low-rooft ...

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...d tears, and that, as associated with such abominations, he was not a worthy object of patronage for a person whose two brothers—her only ones—had giv... ...ever felt himself in the presence of so much organised privacy or of so many objects that spoke of habits and tastes. Most of the people he had hither... .... Farrinder with all her emotion in her smiling eyes. This lady had been the object of many ovations; it was familiar to her that the collective heart... ...o whether it were right to recognise it. Verena Tarrant saw that she was the object of this manifestation, and she got up to meet the lady whose appro... ...Boston soci ety, Verena, in her fresh, diverted scrutiny of the surrounding objects, wondered what could be the need of this scheme of renunciation. ... ...k, you come, but here you wouldn’t; that is always the way.’ With this light philosophy Verena beguiled the transit to the library, into which she int...

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...thou Must perish soone, and to destruction bowe. For if the’eye seeke good objects, and will take - 9 - THE CROSSE John Donne: Holy Sonnets No cro... .... But most the eye needs crossing, that can rome, And move; To th’other th’objects must come home. And crosse thy he art: for that in man alone Po... ...tar be the same. IV. THE TRINITY O Blessed glorious Trinity, Bones to Philosophy, but milke to faith, Which, as wise serpents, diversly M...

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...speaking too — in an abstracted manner, which showed that though she was the object of his thoughts and eyes, to the exclusion even of tripe, he neith... ...s,” meaning Trotty; “in such degenerate times as these? Look at him! What an object! The good old times, the grand old times, the great old times! Tho... ...idn’t specify what particular times he alluded to; nor did he say whether he objected to the present times; from a distinterested consciousness that t... ...and by what wonderful degrees, each separates from each, and every sense and object of the mind resumes its usual form and lives again, no man — thoug... ...er as it is!” Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy. “Come, come!” he said, with his hands in his pockets, “You mu...

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...ey, being withered and undesir able, do not, under certain circumstances, object to unveil ing. After their long seclusion, during which they have a... ...t you. Drink that down and tell us about yourself. The truth, if you’ve no objection.’ Kim coughed a little as he put down the empty glass, and consid... ...’ll come to me this evening.’ For the rest of the day Kim found himself an object of distinguished consideration among a few hundred white men. The st... ...him. ‘So I should lose Delhi for the sake of a fish,’ was his pro verbial philosophy. It behoved him to forget his holidays (there would always remai...

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...ion by your own hands, where he cannot possibly be deceived, you having no object of preceding hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you a... ...n whom he leads by the hand; a horrid image of justice. There are rules in philosophy that are both false and weak. The example that is proposed to us... ... manity, nay , even the tenderest and most delicate in the whole school of philosophy, to the roughest and most violent hu- man actions. Was it nature... ...lf is no other but a slower and more languish- ing motion. I cannot fix my object; ’tis always tottering and reeling by a natural giddiness; I take it... ...ial. I propose a life ordinary and without lustre: ’tis all one; all moral philosophy may as well be applied to a common and private life, as to one o... ...ke themselves. They may also abstract several commodities from history. In philosophy, out of the moral part of it, they may select such instructions ... ...inding myself in this condition, I considered by how many light causes and objects imagination nourished in me the regret of life; of what atoms the w... ... some internal demon that persecutes him? Inquire of yourself where is the object of this mutation? is there anything but us in nature which inanity s... ...painting is not so much carried on by dex- terity of hand as by having the object more vividly imprinted in the soul. Gallus speaks simply because he ...

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...eal myself. She shall have everything a woman can desire; I shall not even object to her being too good for me; she may be cleverer and wiser than I c... ...rls, thank Heaven, but magnificent women are not so common.” “Have you any objections to a foreigner?” his wife con- tinued, addressing Newman, who ha... ...mily.” “There’s your chance, my boy!” said Tristram. “And Madame de Cintre objects,” Newman continued. “She has been sold once; she naturally objects ... ...ed himself these questions even while he stood ready to accept the admired object in all its complexity; he felt that he could do so in profound secur... ...ith Mr. Newman.” “Oh, if you are going to a party, don’t let me keep you,” objected Newman. “I am very sure we shall meet again. Indeed, if you would ... ...which seemed to indicate that her opportunities for revealing her esoteric philosophy were indeed rare. She hoped that Newman would never be afraid of... ...to assent to Valentin’s some- what cynical interpretation of the old man’s philosophy, and, though circumstances seemed to indicate that he had not gi... ...l,” said Newman, rather disgusted at the smooth operation of the old man’s philosophy, “that’s as you please.” M. Nioche seemed to have been prepared ... ...is head in his hands, and Mrs. Tristram contin- ued to temper charity with philosophy and compassion with criticism. At last she inquired, “And what d...

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...e must go our respective ways,” she added, in a tone of extreme wisdom and philosophy. Her grandmother straightened out her knitting and be- gan to ro... ...g of four- wheelers; it appeared to old Mrs. Tramore that something of the objectionableness, the indecency, of her granddaughter’s prospective connec... ... memory and his habits and his things—his books and pictures and bibelots, objects that belonged now to Eric. Rose had sat in it for hours since his d... ... an agree- ment, since she had never informed him that he was posi- tively objectionable; but that this symmetry would be spoiled if she should not be...

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...n the midst of the same great level, and has approached no nearer to the one object within view, the flat horizon which keeps pace with his advance. W... ... Stevenson ligions so old that our language looks a halfing boy along- side; philosophy so wise that our best philosophers find things therein to wond... ...ve some doubtful clause, it is ten to one they would refuse from delicacy to object to it. I know I am speak- ing within the mark, for I have seen suc... ...ks, a sense of humour or, if such a thing is to be had, a little religion or philosophy, are the means of treatment. It will be time enough to think o... ...ments must be learned stupidly, all else being forgotten, as if they were an object in themselves. Lastly, there is something, or there seems to be so... ...rous and pure. They walked separate: the Cigarette plodding behind with some philosophy, the lean Arethusa posting on ahead. Thus each enjoyed his own... ...lushed past purple, almost into blue; and he screamed to lay the desecrating object on the floor. The knapsack proved to contain a change of shirts, o...

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... the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their inf... ... so angry. BRUTUS: O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. CASSIUS: Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils. BRUTUS: ... ...her: What are you then determined to do? BRUTUS: Even by the rule of that philosophy By which I did blame Cato for the death Which he did give himsel...

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...ages, to the Dutch settlements at the Cape of Good Hope. With this forlorn object before them, they finally separate into two parties—never more to me... ...lery, and in miniature vessels, and in stunted little tele scopes, and in objects made of shells that pretend not to be shells. Diminutive spades, ba... ...s, so valiant, and heroic, that the world cannot surpass it. Cavillers may object that they chiefly live upon the salvage of valuable cargoes. So they... ...ith dignity. Several little circumstances combine to render the visitor an object of humiliation. In the first place, the steamer no sooner touches 3... ...h stone para 39 Charles Dickens pets, that the pleasant mist on all such objects, caused by their being seen through the brown nets hung across on p... ...nning, and look at the Houses of Parliament. Now, you know far more of the philosophy of Mind than our bore does, and are much better able to explain ...

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...ve its ideal or perfect state. Really, gentlemen, I beg pardon for so much philosophy at one time, and now let me apply it. When a murder is in the pa... ..., in delighted admiration, while I endeavor to point your attention to the objects of profitable criticism. * * * The first murder is fami... ...ife at- tempted, rest assured there is nothing in him; and against Locke’s philosophy in particular, I think it an unanswerable objection (if we neede... ...; and against Locke’s philosophy in particular, I think it an unanswerable objection (if we needed any), that, although he carried his throat about wi... ...hat if these Friezland hounds had been “game,” we should have no Cartesian philosophy; and how we could have done without that, considering the worlds... ...e said,— ”Dogs, you cannot cut my throat, for you carry Des Cartes and his philosophy,” and might safely have defied them to do their worst. A German ... ...ted with, and a dinner at which I presided—both tending to the same little object as the essay, viz., the diffusion of a just taste among her majesty’... ...Michelet writes against England. Even that, after all, is but my secondary object: the real one is Joanna, the Pucelle d’Orleans for herself. I am not... ...ce to counsels which she disapproved. But she had accomplished the capital objects which her own visions had dictated. These involved all the rest. Er...

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...laves: To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die; With all these living in philosophy. BIRON: I can but say their protestation over; So much, dear ... ... spent an hour’s talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth moving jest, Wh... ...mple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in t... ...abits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance: Which parti coated presence of loose love Put on by...

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...lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his m... ...The driver looked twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could object. ‘The Church of St. Monica,’ said I, ‘and half a sovereign 12 T... ...tral, to get near the window, to watch you, and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry of fire, and to wait you at the comer of t... ...rted. Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Then I, rathe... ... he said that it would be all right. “ ‘In the case of another,’ said he, ‘the objection might be fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a ma... ...ry precise fashion.” “Yes,” I answered, laughing. “It was a singular document. Philosophy, as tronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. ...

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...he would have none of, at any rate not till later on, when I had attained my object. This severe tone was a positive delight to me. I added as cursori... ...opting such a call ing — that is, in keeping a pawnbroker’s shop, I had one object, hinting there was a special circumstance … but I really had a rig... ...as scornful of, but my supposed miserliness in the housekeeping: “he has his objects,” she seemed to say, “he is showing his strength of will.” She su... ... She looked at me and at the revolver (note that the revolver was already an object familiar to her. I had kept one loaded ever since I opened the sho...

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...a tip. “Extremely sorry, Mrs. Munt.” “Not at all, Mr. Wilcox.” “And do you object to going through the village? It is rather a longer spin, but I have... ...om. This completed his home. He was renting the flat furnished; of all the objects that encumbered it none were his own except the photograph frame, t... ...ght run inland from the sea, the chauf- feur might conceal all passion and philosophy be- neath his unhealthy skin. They knew their own busi- ness, an... ... impossible, so long as the younger couple were established in Hilton. His objections to the house were plain as daylight now. Crane had had enough te... ... mother’s people were Lancashire. But why do your brother and your sisters object to Mrs. Bast?” “Oh, I don’t know.” “Excuse me, you do know. I am not... ...f we don’t find her in the porch, we can stroll round into the garden. Our object—” Here they stopped to pick up the doctor. “I was just saying to my ...

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...e thing only remaining. Then thou didst set me down and kiss me; to that I objected; But thou didst answer and say with kindly significant language: ‘... ... means, and will venture E’en on a roundabout way, adroitly to compass her object. Let me know every thin, then; say wherefore so greatly excited ‘As ... ...tly as thou hadst conceived it: For our wishes oft hide from ourselves the object we wish for; Gifts come down from above in the shapes appointed by H...

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... today they are the commonplaces of the gutter press. I live now for three objects only: to defeat the enemy, to restore the Panjandrum, and to hang m...

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...ellent weapon of attack and defence. He is a despiser of mankind as he is of philosophy, and sees in the laws of the state only a violation of the ord... ...of human nature, and has easily brought down his principles to his practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply him with distinctions suited to his vi... ... is met by a corresponding irony on the part of Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not allow him to be silent. He is indeed more ironical an... ... they think best, and never what they desire; for they never attain the true object of desire, which is the good. As if you, Socrates, would not envy... ... and Demos the son of Pyrilampes; the beloved of Socrates are Alcibiades and philosophy. The peculiarity of Callicles is that he can never contradict ... ...on by the interposition of Gorgias. Socrates, having already guarded against objections by distinguishing courage and knowledge from pleasure and good... ... with himself, and with other great teachers, and we may note in passing the objections of his critics. And then (2) casting one eye upon him, we may ... ...d which is unseen can only be represented under figures derived from visible objects. If these figures are suggestive of some new aspect under which t... ...ere is some degree of unfairness in opposing the principle of good, which is objective, to the principle of pleasure, which is subjective. For the ass...

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...de what is so perfectly evident. Change!’ exclaimed Mrs Chick, with severe philosophy. ‘Why, my gracious me, what is there that does not change! even ... ...e existed at various times, she set her face against death altogether, and objected to the mention of any such low and levelling upstart -had borrowed... ...ve gained; spend, enjoy, make much of it; and be as happy as you will. The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are... ... and his eyes have a tendency to become fixed in his head, and to stare at objects without seeing them. The very tall young man is conscious of this f... ...the friend I have sometimes mentioned to you is myself; Miss Dombey is the object of my passion; what are your opinions, Chicken, in this state of thi... ...seman. His comrade’s eye begins to emulate his own, and he, too, stares at objects without taking cognizance thereof. There is a gen- eral redness in ... ...fe’s mother is on the move, Sir.’ ‘I fear,’ returned Mr Dombey , with much philosophy , ‘that Mrs Skewton is shaken.’ ‘Shaken, Dombey!’ said the Major...

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...opu- lar accomplishments. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would a... ...g widow of our aris- tocracy who had very nearly snared him. Why should he object to marry into our aristocracy? Mrs. Mountstuart asked him, and he re... ...h a little new squire at their skirts, that they can partially approve the objections indicated by Sir Willoughby. They are thinking of themselves whe... ...ence, and spoke of little else. Science, he said, was in our days the sole object worth a devoted pursuit. But the sweep- ing remark could hardly appl... ...est thinking should be a sin and hope a guilty spectre. But had his mother objected to her? She could not avoid asking herself. His tour of the globe ... ...nsignificant friend, to whom it was unnecessary that he should mention the object of his rides to Upton Park. He had, however, in the contemplation of... ..., justly relieving a father. With demagogues abroad and daughters at home, philosophy is needed for us to keep erect. Let the girl be Cicero’s T ullia... ...d the second time it will be entirely his own fault. Inspire him with some philosophy.” “I have none.” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better... ....” “I if I thought so, I would say you have better. There are two kinds of philosophy, mine and yours. Mine comes of coldness, yours of devotion.” “He...

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... first foot this conquered wall above? Of less account some knight thereto object Whose loss so great and harmful cannot prove; My lord, your life wit... ...lamed, alas, Beauty and love beheld, both in one seat; Y et them in sundry objects each espies, She, in the glass, he saw them in her eyes: 359 Torqu...

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...hat is their mainspring. It is difficult not to hate those who torture the objects of our love. Though difficult, it is not impossible; but it require... ...rchists and Syndicalists, on the other hand, 12 Proposed Roads to Freedom object to the whole parliamentary machinery, and aim at a different method ... ...a Jew who had nominally accepted Christianity. Marx studied jurisprudence, philosophy, politi- cal economy and history at various German universities.... ...osophy, politi- cal economy and history at various German universities. In philosophy he imbibed the doctrines of Hegel, who was then at the height of... ...rines.[Marx mentions the English Socialists with praise in “The Poverty of Philosophy” (1847). They, like him, tend to base their arguments upon a Ric... ...ajority, but in the sense that it is that as- sented to by all. Anarchists object to such institutions as the police and the criminal law, by means of... ...divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu. With an Introduction by Lionel Giles, M.A. (Oxon.... ...ure, art and science will die and all progress will become impossible. The objection which some feel to Socialism and Anarchism alike on this ground c... ...University Studies in Political Science, vol. xlvi, No. 3.) This is a very objective and reliable account of the origin and progress of French Syndica...

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...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ...................................................

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...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE ...................................................... ..... 243 6 EA Poe THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES V olume Five PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE In the internal decoration, if not in the external ... ...:—this for the reason, first, that wealth is not, in England, the loftiest object of ambition as constituting a nobility; and secondly, that there, th... ... is the carpet. From it are deduced not only the hues but the forms of all objects incumbent. A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good jud... ... Median laws. The abomination of flowers, or representations of well-known objects of any kind, should not be endured within the limits of Christendom... ...nt-stock compa- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as... ...eyes from the page, they fell upon the naked face of the bill, and upon an object—upon some living monster of hideous con- formation, which very rapid... ..., with what I thought a cruel calmness, of various points of specula- tive philosophy, which had heretofore formed subject of dis- cussion between us.... ...of the under- standing to under-rate or to over-value the importance of an object, through mere mis-admeasurement of its propinquity. “To estimate pro...

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...ma of any language may be challenged to rival. In “The Man of Destiny” the object of the drama- tist is not so much the destruction as the explana- ti... ...three regiments. He does not know how to get them to Phillipopolis; and he objects to every sug- gestion of mine. Y ou must go and help him, Sergius. ... ...o match them, complete the handsome effect of the furnishing. There is one object, however, which is hopelessly out of keeping with its surroundings. ... .... This young lady (intro- ducing Louka, who faces them all proudly) is the object of Major Saranoff’s affections at present. PETKOFF. Louka! Are you m...

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...ll never be hanged. There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. GIUSEPPE (sympathetically). Not the least in the world, excel... ... letters. (He again offers the packet.) LADY. In that case there can be no objection to your keep- ing it. All I wanted was to prevent your reading it...

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... fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all ‘hues’ in his controlling, ... ... to the heart Of bird of flower, or shape, which it doth latch: Of his quick objects hath the mind no part, Nor his own vision holds what it doth catc... ...s as your sweet self resemble, Creating every bad a perfect best, As fast as objects to his beams assemble? O, ’tis the first; ’tis flattery in my see...

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...lluminated,--it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplac...

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...hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Th... ...glish culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Philosophy of Clothes, but recognition even that we have no such Philosop... ...last months, did the above very plain considerations, on our total want of a Philosophy of Clothes, occur to him; and then, by quite foreign suggestio... ...t and will exalt the almost new name of Teufelsdr¨ ockh to the first ranks of Philosophy, in our German Temple of Honor.” Mindful of old friendship, th... ... present reflect light and resist pressure; that is, are visible and tangible objects in this phantasm world, where so much other mystery is. It was to... ...er, or the litter from which the earth makes Corn. Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows, through which the phi... ...Minister von Goethe has penetratingly remarked that Man is properly the only object that interests man:’ thus I too have noted, that in Weissnichtwo o... ...ages, on almost all subjects and sciences; farther, as man is ever the prime object to man, already it was my favorite employment to read character in... ...oyment, ever vex and agitate him. He too must enact that stern Monodrama, No Object and no Rest; must front its successive destinies, work through to ...

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...hoppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy,’ Or so did Tom O’Roughley say Th... ...ree; The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasel... ...ntercourse grow less and less; They are neither paid nor praised. But he d object to the host, The glass because my glass; A ghost lover he was And ma...

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...e shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle... ...li entered the room with the air of a happy conqueror who has attained the object of his desires. “Well, have you heard the great news? Prince Kutuzov... ...f time, and where it is 37 Tolstoy not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills... ... quarrel with his son, had harbored nasty suspicions of him, making it the object of her life to poison his existence, and he drove her from his study... ... presents itself as obvious for an 94 War and Peace – Book Ten army whose object was to prevent an enemy from advancing along the Smolensk road to Mo...

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...cept with an inferior regard; her whole thoughts being centred on this one object of affec- tion and worship. I know that, before her, my dear father ... ..., for she had come upon him as a Dea certe, and appeared the most charming object he had ever looked on. Her golden hair was shining in the gold of th... ... and wake my lady, into whose hands he gave the paper. She was a wonderful object to look at in her night attire, nor had Harry ever seen the like. As... ...bedience. First she had to bear in secret the passion of losing the adored object; then to get fur- ther initiation, and to find this worshipped being... ...e Jesuit, than which he knew no other. Mr. Bridge, the tutor, made him the object of clumsy jokes, in which he was fond of indulging. The young man’s ... ... pretty one for you to undertake. I don’t know whether ’tis your Cambridge philosophy, or time, that has altered your ways of thinking,” Lady Castlewo...

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...e a dupe of me, even as he was seeking to make a dupe of himself, wresting philosophy to the needs of his own sorrow. But in the light of this new fac... ...s a contribution to the theory of life. So with the more icy parts of this philosophy of Thoreau’s. He was affecting the Spartan- ism he had not; and ... ... beyond, for which he had found or sought no formula, on which perhaps his philosophy even looked askance, is wanting in my study, as it was wanting i... ... in romance, that has since renewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested... ...ecommend to the lov- ers of genuine fun. In L’Homme Qui Rit, it was Hugo’s object to ‘denounce’ (as he would say himself) the aristocratic principle a... ... allegory, but with bold, straight- forward realism, dealing only with the objective materials of art, and dealing with them so masterfully that the p... ...al all day long, she would still be a peasant to her lettered lord, and an object of pity rather than of equal affection. She could now be faithful, s... ...by the very virtues of which he makes him- self the advocate. “There is no object so soft,” he says some- where in his big, plain way, “there is no ob... ...for the wheel’d universe.” Rightly understood, it is on the softest of all objects, the sympathetic heart, that the wheel of society turns easily and ...

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...d me some times to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only askin... ...and among them; but, being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to print ing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mi... ...ving his books, which were a pretty col lection of mathematicks and natural philosophy, to come with mine and me to New York, where he propos’d to wa... ...me to explain with me upon the doctrines, I found several conundrums which I objected to, unless I might have my way a little too, and introduce some ... ...that he must therefore fall, which would make a vacancy I might profit of. I objected my want of money. He then let me know that his father had a high... ...d produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Poli tics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months prod... ...ch in my absence. Our mutual affection was revived, but there were now great objections to our union. The match was indeed looked upon as invalid, a p... ... much originality as if you had been conducting discus sions in politics or philosophy; and what more worthy of experiments and system (its importanc... ...ation of my improvements and discov eries in the electric branch of natural philosophy. In 1754, war with France being again apprehended, a con gres...

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...er by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels... ...oment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moon- struck philosophy justifies the act in question. I can fancy nothing to compare wi... ...men than increase of knowl- edge or clarity of thought. The drama, not the philosophy, of life is the sphere of their intellectual activity. Even when... ...t fills the soul. But doubtless, also, the masters are, in many cases, the object of a merely interested cultus, sitting aloft like Louis Quatorze, gi... ...e itself, in the cockpit of life, can torture and slay. What, then, is the object, what the method, of an art, and what the source of its power? The w...