French Traits: An Essay in Comparative CriticismC. Scribner's Sons, 1889 - 411 עמודים |
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עמוד 96 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
עמוד 325 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
עמוד 325 - Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer.
עמוד 30 - Comtist regard for humanity to "a childless woman's love for a lap-dog " is a fair measure of his sympathetic quality, maintains that " the French way of loving the human race is the one of their many sins which it is most difficult to forgive," and that "it is not love that one wants from the great mass of mankind, but respect and justice.
עמוד 303 - It is not hard to know God, provided one will not force oneself to define him. ' Do not bring into the domain of reasoning that which belongs to our innermost feeling. State truths of sentiment, and do not try to prove them. There is a danger in such proofs ; for in arguing it is necessary to treat that which is in question as something problematic : now...
עמוד 147 - They have gazed," said Thackeray of his spectacles, " at dozens of tragedy- queens, dying on the stage and expiring in appropriate blank verse, and I never wanted to wipe them. They have looked up, with deep respect be it said, at many scores of clergymen in pulpits, and without being dimmed ; and behold ! a vagabond, with a corked face and a banjo, sings a little song, strikes a wild note which sets the whole heart thrilling with happy pity.
עמוד 404 - The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was happiness enough to get his work done. Not "I can't eat!" but "I can't work!" that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the one unhappiness of a man, That he cannot work; that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled.
עמוד 254 - Gray," says M. de Biez again, " which is the color of the sky in France, is also the color of truth itself, of that truth which tempers the impetuosity of enthusiasm and restrains the spirit within the middle spheres of precise reason." Nothing could more accurately attest the French feeling in regard to color — the French distrust of its riotous potentialities. And, as when one looks constantly at one side of anything, its other side escapes him, the Salon is not only lacking in color, but it...
עמוד 402 - Railway newsstands while he fumes at having to wait two minutes for his train, hastily buys his tardy ticket of sidewalk speculators, and leaves the theater as if it were on fire — the life of such a man is, notwithstanding all its futile activity, varied by long spaces of absolute mental stagnation, of moral coma. Not only is our hurry not decorous, not decent ; it is not real activity, it is as little as possible like the animated existence of Paris, where the moral nature is kept in constant...
עמוד 311 - I find on this side the Atlantic a strong resemblance to what I left on the other — a nation which exists in hopes, prospects, and expectations...