Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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... possible emotional ventures . When his bell rings , he must be ready for the extremes : it may be a birth , a death , a wedding . He must be attuned . To be attuned to all things is to be tuneless . To be ready for everything is to be ...
... possible emotional ventures . When his bell rings , he must be ready for the extremes : it may be a birth , a death , a wedding . He must be attuned . To be attuned to all things is to be tuneless . To be ready for everything is to be ...
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... possible , and he becomes to himself a hypocrite and for others a firebrand . One wonders whether this moral strenuousness for other people's be- havior is not a kind of bolstering of his own courage , a kind of shouting to keep the ...
... possible , and he becomes to himself a hypocrite and for others a firebrand . One wonders whether this moral strenuousness for other people's be- havior is not a kind of bolstering of his own courage , a kind of shouting to keep the ...
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... he ceases to minister to the sins of the community and becomes a servant of its needs . Here a man finds a different field and becomes a different person . I T is still possible to go beyond the range 20 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
... he ceases to minister to the sins of the community and becomes a servant of its needs . Here a man finds a different field and becomes a different person . I T is still possible to go beyond the range 20 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
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... possible to go beyond the range of the radio and its tidings of stock quotations and the latest dance tunes . And yet as we traveled on foot and on horseback up the slow trail toward the ragged peaks at the head of the Green River ...
... possible to go beyond the range of the radio and its tidings of stock quotations and the latest dance tunes . And yet as we traveled on foot and on horseback up the slow trail toward the ragged peaks at the head of the Green River ...
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... possible technic for this right - about face . I don't suppose it has ever been tried . Will any teacher of history who reads this let me know in case it has been tried , where , and with what results ? It consists in beginning every ...
... possible technic for this right - about face . I don't suppose it has ever been tried . Will any teacher of history who reads this let me know in case it has been tried , where , and with what results ? It consists in beginning every ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.