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... being the reading eventually come to him to enable him to of some of Horace's odes . He describes , live in some comfort and independence . When two sessions had been passed at Edinburgh and no 4 THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN .
... being the reading eventually come to him to enable him to of some of Horace's odes . He describes , live in some comfort and independence . When two sessions had been passed at Edinburgh and no 4 THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN .
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... live in the country . Accordingly he pur- chased a house and grounds at Down in a sequestered part of Kent , some twenty miles from London , and moved thither in the autumn of 1842. In that quiet home he passed the remaining forty years ...
... live in the country . Accordingly he pur- chased a house and grounds at Down in a sequestered part of Kent , some twenty miles from London , and moved thither in the autumn of 1842. In that quiet home he passed the remaining forty years ...
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... live happy ever after . It was all very pretty ; but , unhappily , it did not fall out as he had planned at all . On the contrary ; for when he reached the home where his divinity dwelt , he found other worshippers at the shrine . She ...
... live happy ever after . It was all very pretty ; but , unhappily , it did not fall out as he had planned at all . On the contrary ; for when he reached the home where his divinity dwelt , he found other worshippers at the shrine . She ...
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... live out their natural term . Woe to the European visitor who leaves his vessel themselves , and are a poor recommenda- and incautiously passes a night upon the tion for the efforts of Christian mission- shore ! He , sometimes , falls a ...
... live out their natural term . Woe to the European visitor who leaves his vessel themselves , and are a poor recommenda- and incautiously passes a night upon the tion for the efforts of Christian mission- shore ! He , sometimes , falls a ...
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is only half alive . It exists , it does not live ; and who will say that Christianity is only half alive , or that every honorable motive which leads a devout Mussulman to wish to propagate his creed , ought not to operate with tenfold ...
is only half alive . It exists , it does not live ; and who will say that Christianity is only half alive , or that every honorable motive which leads a devout Mussulman to wish to propagate his creed , ought not to operate with tenfold ...
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Page 218 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 413 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 361 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 430 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 371 - IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.
Page 371 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
Page 412 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 371 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
Page 260 - There is a passage in Hogg's capitally written and most interesting account of Shelley which I wrote down when I first read it and have borne in mind ever since; so beautifully it seemed to render the true Shelley. Hogg has been speaking of the intellectual expression of Shelley's features, and he goes on: "Nor was the moral expression less beautiful than the intellectual; for there was a softness, a delicacy, a gentleness, and especially (though this will surprise many) that air of profound religious...
Page 59 - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.