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Page 49
... stand for a race but to stand for intelligence itself , and they who share in our culture are called Greeks even before those who are merely of our own blood . " The power of intellect and science , the power of beauty , the power of ...
... stand for a race but to stand for intelligence itself , and they who share in our culture are called Greeks even before those who are merely of our own blood . " The power of intellect and science , the power of beauty , the power of ...
Page 56
... stand out and who form exceptions . Well then , if a nation laying no sufficient hold upon the powers of beauty and knowledge , and a most failing and feeble hold upon the power of conduct , comes to demoralisation and intellectual ...
... stand out and who form exceptions . Well then , if a nation laying no sufficient hold upon the powers of beauty and knowledge , and a most failing and feeble hold upon the power of conduct , comes to demoralisation and intellectual ...
Page 62
... stand . " Those who offer us the Puritan type of life offer us a religion not true , the claims of intellect and know- ledge not satisfied , the claim of beauty not satisfied , the claim of manners not satisfied . In its strong sense ...
... stand . " Those who offer us the Puritan type of life offer us a religion not true , the claims of intellect and know- ledge not satisfied , the claim of beauty not satisfied , the claim of manners not satisfied . In its strong sense ...
Page 110
... standing . Of course , what good instruction there is , and what schools of good stand- ing there are to get it in , fall chiefly to the lot of the upper- class . It is on the middle - class that the injury , such as it is , of getting ...
... standing . Of course , what good instruction there is , and what schools of good stand- ing there are to get it in , fall chiefly to the lot of the upper- class . It is on the middle - class that the injury , such as it is , of getting ...
Page 111
... stand- ing they are naturally on a level . So we have amongst us the spectacle of a middle - class cut in two in a way unexampled anywhere else ; of a professional class brought up on the first plane , with fine and governing qualities ...
... stand- ing they are naturally on a level . So we have amongst us the spectacle of a middle - class cut in two in a way unexampled anywhere else ; of a professional class brought up on the first plane , with fine and governing qualities ...
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Page 19 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 57 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 203 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 423 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 48 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 158 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 421 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 315 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Page 203 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Page 423 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...