Full Text Search Details
... cap, “we are not perhaps in exactly the same camp. Y our judgment is more philosophical. Y ou are a man of few words, but I haven’t met anybody who d... ...of teeth this man raised in the land. That would be enough to get over any philosophical hopes. He was uproot- ing the tender plant. He had to be stop... ... the spirit of cynicism. It informs the declarations of her statesmen, the theories of her revolutionists, and the mystic vaticinations of prophets to...

Full Text Search Details
...gles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had been previously established for the great... ...heir notions on the great intellec- tual truths were in general simple and philosophical.** Although we have here traced the character of a primitive ... ...lle France”; “Lettres du Rev. G. Hecwelder;” “Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190.... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...heir notions on the great intellec- tual truths were in general simple and philosophical.** Although we have here traced the character of a primitive ... ...lle France”; “Lettres du Rev. G. Hecwelder;” “Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190.... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...esponded in many points with the most absolute demo- cratic and republican theories. It was this tendency which had aroused its most dangerous adversa... ...t. If we turn from their political and religious opinions to the moral and philosophical principles which regulate the daily actions of life and gover...

Full Text Search Details
...he younger, was one of our wisest men; and let my reader see if he, in his philosophical works, be half as unmystical as I am. I say, then, that it ha... ... fact, if I dared to say the real and simple truth, though, to satisfy the theories of medical men, I ought to be ill, I never was better in my life t... ...nile efforts that the writer whom I allude to expressly addressed hints to philosophical themes; his riper powers having been all dedicated (on very e... ...er than a subtle one. It is, besides, a great drawback on his mastery over philosophical subjects that he has obviously not had the advantage of a reg...

Full Text Search Details
...of each nation, of the unknown beings whose traces survive in us. “Who can philosophically explain the transition from sen- sation to thought, from th... ...n as child- ish. I at once spent several months in recalling the principal theories discovered by my poor schoolmate. Having collected my reminiscence... ...ich, as he had declared, evidence was certain to come sooner or later. His philosophical speculations ought undoubtedly to gain him recognition as one... ...vity of his spirit feeding on it- self. Louis had sought for proofs of his theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their bi... ...o each chapter in the form of demonstrations, so as to give to many of his theories an almost mathematical certainty . The works of Cardan, a man gift... ...le work of nature. He had too much good sense to dwell among the clouds of theories which can all be expressed in a few words. In our day, is not the ... ...as as are written in the inner- most nature of things? Must we not reverse philosophical science? “We trouble ourselves very little about the supposed...

Full Text Search Details
...with some one else. You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tea... ...ery gist and centrepoint of God’s creation, and demolishes our la- borious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one mast... ...cean. We have no more than glimpses and touches; we are torn away from our theories; we are spun round and round and shown this or the other view of l... ... sphere of intellect, by which all things are transformed and seen through theories and associations as through coloured windows. We make to ourselves... ...onder, not always to admire, but to make and modify our little incongruous theories about life. It is no longer the uniform of a soldier that ar- rest... ...om play, is itself an abstract, impersonal thing, and depends largely upon philosophical interests beyond the scope of childhood. It is when we make c...

Full Text Search Details
...hat size. Did you ever see a squirrel turn- ing in a cage? and another squirrel sitting philosophically over his nuts? I needn’t ask you which of them... .... The Doctor drew a long breath, he was so much relieved to find a theory (for he loved theories) and to ex- plain away his interest. For all that, he... ... brim. Those who had known the Doctor in bachelor days, when he had aired quite as many theories, but of a different order, at- tributed his present p... ...es, was he not educat- ing the boy? And education, philosophers are agreed, is the most philosophical of duties. What can be more heav- enly to poor m... ...an eremite myself – if I had not been a professed buffoon, that is. These were the only philosophical lives yet open: laughter or prayer; sneers, we m... ...for the service of my coun- try. Modesty in such a case would be a snare. If sin were a philosophical expression, I should call it sinful. A man must ... ...remains to be done, of the injustices that may yet be righted by an ardent, active, and philosophical deputy.’ Jean-Marie put his faith in Madame Desp...

Full Text Search Details
...nto those endless meditations which have given birth to so many pro- found theories, to the mystic dreams of the North, to its beliefs, to its studies... ...by over a century the slow march of human science. It suffices to read his philosophical and mineralogical works to be convinced of this. In one pas- ... ..., “behold him! here are seven- teen works from his pen, of which one, his ‘Philosophical and Mineralogical Works,’ published in 1734, is in three 40 ... ...iction cannot be 73 Balzac argued with. Convert my belief into scientific theories, and let us try to enlighten each other. To-morrow evening we shal... ...rases which are often commonplace. “Bah!” said the worthy pastor, making a philosophical gri- mace as he spread a layer of salt butter on his slice of...

Full Text Search Details
...First and Last Things.” In this present book there is no further attack on philosophical or metaphysical questions. Here we work at a 5 H. G. Wells l... ...hat it has any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the sta... ...efs and imperatives and usages of the various Christian, pseudo-Christian, philosophical, and agnostic cults amidst which it has appeared. The writer’... ...e Sabellian or the Trinity of the Arian, any more than one thinks of those theories made stone, those gods with three heads and seven hands, who sit o... ... dead as the lore of the Druids. The emancipation of mankind from obsolete theories and formularies may be accompanied by great tides of moral and emo...

Full Text Search Details
...e had seen were some pickets along the river bank. They were a sun-tanned, philosophical lot, who some- times shot reflectively at the blue pickets. W... ... judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured himself that his fellows were all privately wondering... ...he tall one’s plan was not the true one at all. They per-sisted with other theories. There was a vigorous discussion. The youth took no part in them. ... ...ourage. The strain of present circumstances he felt to be intolerable. The philosophical tall soldier measured a sand-wich of cracker and pork and swa...

Full Text Search Details
...a friendly but rather awkward way. It was the first practical trial of our theories of equal brotherhood and sisterhood; and we people of superior cul... ...emblance, it is true, than the world chose to imagine, inasmuch as the two theories differed, as widely as the zenith from the nadir, in their main pr... ...here, who lived with us in a familiar way, sympathized more or less in our theories, and sometimes shared in our labors. On the whole, it was a societ... ...many visits at Blithedale, especially from people who sympathized with our theories, and perhaps held themselves ready to unite in our actual experime... ...cal professors) was bringing forward, anew, a hoard of facts and imperfect theories, that had partially won credence in elder times, but which modern ... ...o one great, mutually conscious broth erhood. He described (in a strange, philosophical guise, with terms of art, as if it were a matter of chemical ...

Full Text Search Details
...nor passionately loved,—a web of iridescent threads. He had luminous final theories about Love and Death and Immortality, odd matters they seemed for ... ...ng in—what is the word?—muliebrity. She had cour- age and initiative and a philosophical way of handling ques- tions, and she could be bored by regula... ...was an Hegelian mess of which I had partaken at Codger’s table by way of a philosophical training, my sym- pathies have always been Pragmatist. I belo... ... changing hue and variable refraction at something vitally unstable. Broad theories and generalisations are mingled with personal influences, with pre... ...were attempting co-operation were preposterously irrel- evant to their own theories, that my political life didn’t in some way comprehend more than it... ...on of a constructive dream capable of sus- taining a great educational and philosophical movement such as no formula of Liberalism supplied. The fact ... ... and as if it was quite a small matter, I set my- self to secure a uniform philosophical quality in our columns. That, indeed, was the peculiar virtue... ...touched to flaccidity by her pen or mine…. I was at great pains to give my philosophical, political, and social matter the best literary and critical ... ...t the cost, as we two had to do. I am telling a story, and not propounding theories in this book; and chiefly I am telling of the ideas and influences...

Full Text Search Details
...overcome this reluctance on the lecture platform. Our author’s tendency to philosophical discussion is strikingly set forth in a letter from Dr. Titus... ... paradise islands, but he preferred to pour forth his phi- losophy and his theories of life. The shade of Aristotle arose like a cold mist between mys... ...ypee.’ It is known that Mr. Melville from early manhood indulged deeply in philosophical studies, and his fondness for discussing such matters is poin... ...e duties becoming too arduous for his failing strength. In addition to his philosophical studies, Mr. Melville was much interested in all matters rela... ...891). 19 Melville There is no question that Mr. Melville’s absorption in philosophical studies was quite as responsible as the failure of his later ... ...ey establish the great age of the island, an opinion which the builders of theories concerning, the creation of the various groups in the South Seas a... ...immortal spirit yearning, after the unknown future. Although the religious theories of the islands were a com- plete mystery to me, their practical ev... ...nt-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories. 227 Melville There was one admirable trait in the general charac...

Full Text Search Details
...ppeals. That sentiment hardly exists as yet among you—a nation given up to philosophical theories, to analysis and discus- sion, and always torn by ci... ...entiment hardly exists as yet among you—a nation given up to philosophical theories, to analysis and discus- sion, and always torn by civil disturbanc...

Full Text Search Details
...d representation of the most physical of our feelings, whereas serious and philosophical writers never employ its images except as the consequence or ... ... was dis- sipated in the atmosphere of that ardent soul, his hard and fast theories melted away, and happiness colored his exist- 62 The Girl with th...

Full Text Search Details
...n the matter, so as scarce to rub its crust; the greatest man of the first philosophical school, and superintendent over all the rest, the great Zeno,... ... to make that noble Socratical bargain between body and soul, purchasing a philosophical and spiritual intelligence and generation at 128 Essays: Boo... ... but a liar or a fool that will say otherwise than so and so.” Pursue this philosophical point with a dagger in your hand. There is another observatio... ...e was a great personage, upright and bold, not of a superstitious but of a philosophical and generous virtue. One may think him bold in his relations;... ...ought, of necessity, to pass under my knowledge and inspection. ’Tis not a philosophical disdain of worldly and transitory things; my taste is not pur... ...d those rules that exceed both our use and force? I see often that we have theories of life set before us which neither the proposer nor those who hea...

Full Text Search Details
...short, Armand de Montriveau was one of many great men unknown to fame, and philosophical enough to despise it; living with- out attaching themselves t... ...enly set- ting him down a thousand miles away from the boudoir, discussing theories of absolute monarchy, which she defended to admiration. Few women ... ... sure to compound with the Liberals and allow them to argue and talk. This philosophical cant will be just as dangerous now for the younger brother as...

Full Text Search Details
...d selfish materialism. But by living in that spiritual hothouse of dreams, philosophical speculations, and abstrac- tions, these men unfitted themselv... ...,’ continued Pigasov, ‘they’re my abomination, these general propositions, theories, conclu- sions. All that’s based on so-called convictions; every o... ... us. I told you just now, you know, that he had not read much, but he read philosophical books, and his brain was so constructed that he extracted at ...

Full Text Search Details
...payment and fee-snatching, to insist upon 72 What Is Coming? a scientific philosophical training for its practitioners, to make the practice of advoc... ...t thinking and discussion in the Prussia of the eighteenth century, to the theories of a few professors and the gathering trend of German education in... ...of the nine- teenth century it was the fashion to regard them as a race of philosophical incompetents. Their reputation as a people of exceptionally m...

Full Text Search Details
...laration of a great adventure. Then, as he paced the long platform, came a philosophical mood, a sense of entire detachment from the world. He saw a b... ...y assumed enormous propor- tions. At times indeed even that good man’s own philosophical sketch of himself as a practical exponent of mental sincerity... ...ith an increasing disposition to gossip. At South Kensington he dwelt with theories and ideals as a student should; at the little rooms in Chelsea—the... ...ledgments of Lewisham’s goodness only partly relieved his disposition to a philosophical bitterness. And the practical issues were complicated by excu...

Full Text Search Details
... “The Great Mother of the Gods,” said Dr. Martineau— still clinging to his theories. “The need of the woman,” said Sir Richmond. “I want mating becaus... ...r. Facts he would always listen to; it was only when people told him their theories that he would interrupt with his “Exactly.” “This young woman is a... ... His name is Dr. Martineau. He is quite as civilized as I am. He is also a philosophical writer. He is really a very wise and learned man indeed. He i... ...vented and ascribed to his departed friend. They talked anthropologically, philosophically, speculatively, with an absurd pretence of detachment, they... ...“Confusions merely. The world is just a muddle of states and religions and theories and stupidities. There are great lumps of disorderly strength in i...