The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tableTicknor and Fields, 1868 - 373 σελίδες |
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... minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical in- tellects . All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula : 2 + 2 = 4 . Every philosophical proposition has the more ...
... minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical in- tellects . All economical and practical wisdom is an extension or variation of the following arithmetical formula : 2 + 2 = 4 . Every philosophical proposition has the more ...
Σελίδα 11
... minds have a horror of what are commonly called " facts . " They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain . Who ... mind . The reader will of course understand the precise amount of seasoning which must be added to it before he ...
... minds have a horror of what are commonly called " facts . " They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain . Who ... mind . The reader will of course understand the precise amount of seasoning which must be added to it before he ...
Σελίδα 11
... minds . Their thoughts do not run in the natural order of sequence . They say bright things on all possible subjects , ' but their zigzags rack you to death . After a jolting half- hour with one of these jerky companions , talking with ...
... minds . Their thoughts do not run in the natural order of sequence . They say bright things on all possible subjects , ' but their zigzags rack you to death . After a jolting half- hour with one of these jerky companions , talking with ...
Σελίδα 11
... that conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle . But little - minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes ' conversation gives you an arc 10 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
... that conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle . But little - minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes ' conversation gives you an arc 10 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE.
Σελίδα 12
... minds ? Let me lay down the law upon the subject . Life and language are alike sacred . Homicide and verbicide - that is , violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legiti- mate meaning , which is its life — are alike ...
... minds ? Let me lay down the law upon the subject . Life and language are alike sacred . Homicide and verbicide - that is , violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legiti- mate meaning , which is its life — are alike ...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell Oliver Wendell Holmes Πλήρης προβολή - 1879 |
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Σελίδα 105 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving! To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Σελίδα 313 - Little I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I...
Σελίδα 297 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Σελίδα 295 - Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown.
Σελίδα 298 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.
Σελίδα 296 - He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Σελίδα 110 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Σελίδα 297 - EIGHTEEN HUNDRED;— it came and found The Deacon's masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten; — "Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came; — Running as usual; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE.
Σελίδα 297 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whippletree neither less nor more, And the back cross-bar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out!
Σελίδα 353 - The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them...