A Study for the Times: An Inquiry Into Thought and MoticesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920 - 324 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
A Study for the Times, an Inquiry Into Thought and Motive (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>William McKim</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2017 |
A Study for the Times, an Inquiry Into Thought and Motive (Classic Reprint) <span dir=ltr>William McKim</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2018 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 138 - It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
עמוד 130 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
עמוד 219 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
עמוד 158 - it will be questioned ; ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea ? ' Oh ! no, no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying : ' Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' I question not my corporeal eye, any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
עמוד 88 - I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
עמוד 130 - Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal, The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks ? Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
עמוד 70 - ... to it ; his own witnesses are applauded and encouraged ; the statements which seem to throw discredit on them are controverted ; the contradictions into which they fall are explained away ; a clear and connected abstract of their evidence is given. Everything that is offered on the other...
עמוד 293 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
עמוד 17 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself...
עמוד 224 - First, as in their own defence, as being exposed to scorn ; but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat to repay.