Self-formation: Or, The History of an Individual Mind; Intended as a Guide for the Intellect Through Difficulties to SuccessC. Knight and Company, 1837 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Pagina 62 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk ; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Pagina 106 - I for the bulk and big assemblage of a man ? give me the spirit, Master Shallow ; I say, give me the spirit.
Pagina 173 - ... taken from the bed of the river, smoothed, of course, and rounded, many of them by attrition, and lying there most invitingly ; any of them a match for the sword and spear of Goliath. This was our arma-mentarium. One would have supposed that a Balearic colony had settled just at that point of the river — so continuous, and so fast and furious withal, was the storm of stones hailed down from it on every poor devoted barge that chanced to pass while we were in presence Oaths and execrations were...
Pagina 282 - No, there is a necessity in fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate : He keeps his object ever full in sight ; And that assurance holds him firm and right ; True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, But right before there is no precipice ; Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss.
Pagina 254 - ... and purposes. Let him utter every sentence, and every considerable member of it, — if it be a jointed one, — distinctly, sustainedly, and unrespiringly ; suiting, of course, everywhere his tone and emphasis to the spirit of the composition. Let him do this till the exercise shall have become a habit, as it were, a second nature, till it shall seem unnatural to him to do otherwise, and he will then have laid his corner-stone.
Pagina 125 - ... a critical one nevertheless, and pretty surely indicative of the heights, as well as the direction, to be taken by the more fully expanded mind. Point out to me a boy of original, or what would generally be called eccentric habits, fond of rambling about, a hunter of the wood-side and river-bank, prone to collect what he can search out, and then on his return to shut himself up in his room, and make experiments upon his gatherings — to inquire into the natural history of each according to its...
Pagina 195 - Watts' admirable practical treatise on the improvement of the mind. They have also this further recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man.
Pagina 271 - And yet the cry of most dullards, and of many who are not, is, "I am too low in the scale ; it is of no use for me to try to rise ; I am not, and never shall be, anybody." But does a prisoner cling to his captivity and hug his fetters because his dungeon is low and dark and noisome ? No; he pants for the " upper air" all the more aspiringly. The very consciousness of his prostration should be a spur stimulating one to raise himself by all possible efforts. No man should be discouraged because he...