Fragments from German Prose Writers. Translated by S. Austin. Illustrated with notesJohn Murray, 1841 - 359 pages |
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... - time , or ever received into the imagination and the memory of their readers , " is expressly contradicted by history —at least by that of modern poetry , which is most to our present purpose . Dante and Petrarch , the 12.
... - time , or ever received into the imagination and the memory of their readers , " is expressly contradicted by history —at least by that of modern poetry , which is most to our present purpose . Dante and Petrarch , the 12.
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... received all your letters , and understand therefrom how it fares with you all . That you may be aware how it fares with us , I hereby give you to know that we , namely I , Master Veit and Cyriac , do not go to the Diet at Augsburg : we ...
... received all your letters , and understand therefrom how it fares with you all . That you may be aware how it fares with us , I hereby give you to know that we , namely I , Master Veit and Cyriac , do not go to the Diet at Augsburg : we ...
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... received among us , it cannot be left out of account in the measures now projected . It is , however , well known that this Roman code is , for the most part , merely a col- lection of the opinions and decisions of lawyers in particular ...
... received among us , it cannot be left out of account in the measures now projected . It is , however , well known that this Roman code is , for the most part , merely a col- lection of the opinions and decisions of lawyers in particular ...
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... received a thou- sand impressions from it . Hence they are in the highest degree corporeal , -they possess the most in- tense personality . They are , the gods of Olympus ; the supreme Zeus , with his children and kindred . Ottfried ...
... received a thou- sand impressions from it . Hence they are in the highest degree corporeal , -they possess the most in- tense personality . They are , the gods of Olympus ; the supreme Zeus , with his children and kindred . Ottfried ...
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... receiving every good suggestion , and quietly following it out ; a school , whose end is wisdom , whose means , poetry , harmony and song . Zelter . It is as if women made everything with their hands , and men with tools . A. W. v ...
... receiving every good suggestion , and quietly following it out ; a school , whose end is wisdom , whose means , poetry , harmony and song . Zelter . It is as if women made everything with their hands , and men with tools . A. W. v ...
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Page 227 - Enlightenment is man's emergence from his selfincurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another.
Page 40 - ... flattery; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend, and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenched honour, bless God, and die.
Page 146 - To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess.
Page 40 - The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness : one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging, — alike at all hours ; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one, we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.
Page 90 - ... sweet motherly love with which Nature has gifted her; it is almost independent of cold reason, and wholly removed from all selfish hope of reward. Not because it is lovely, does the mother love her child, but because it is a living part of herself,— the child of her heart, a fraction of her own nature. Therefore do her...
Page 233 - ... with respect to it, as a priest, he is not free, nor can he be free, because he carries out the orders of another. But as a scholar, whose writings speak to his public, the world, the clergyman in the public use of his reason enjoys an unlimited freedom to use his own reason and to speak in his own person.
Page 80 - The year is dying away,' says Goethe, ' like the sound of bells. The wind passes over the stubble, and finds nothing to move. Only the red berries of that slender tree seem as if they would fain remind us of something cheerful ; and the measured beat of the thresher's flail calls up the thought that in the dry and fallen ear lies so much of nourishment and life.
Page 72 - A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Page 26 - All his efforts are directed to the perfecting of his knowledge ; his noble impatience cannot be tranquillized till all his conceptions have arranged themselves into one harmonious whole ; till he stands at the central point of arts and sciences, and thence overlooks the whole extent of their dominion with satisfied glance. New discoveries in the field of his activity, which depress the trader in science, enrapture the philosopher. Perhaps they fill a chasm which the growth of his ideas had rendered...
Page 4 - The Last, Best Fruit of Life. —The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.