The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 106Atlantic Monthly Company, 1910 - American essays |
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... moral- ists , and even governments may try to rouse some power of resistance , the re- sisting force is no longer ... morally , — then , I say , there occurred in America what occurred in Rome when increased wealth and nearer intimacy ...
... moral- ists , and even governments may try to rouse some power of resistance , the re- sisting force is no longer ... morally , — then , I say , there occurred in America what occurred in Rome when increased wealth and nearer intimacy ...
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... moral , simply because at that time the puritan conscience was no longer living . These later periods considered as natural and inevitable vices and disorders much more seri- ous than those which , in Cæsar's time , when the moral ...
... moral , simply because at that time the puritan conscience was no longer living . These later periods considered as natural and inevitable vices and disorders much more seri- ous than those which , in Cæsar's time , when the moral ...
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... moral ob- stacles , puritan traditions , democratic principles , the reluctance of society at large to admire the rich who spend self- ishly , a conspiracy , as it were , of social forces which obliges the rich to spend for others . It ...
... moral ob- stacles , puritan traditions , democratic principles , the reluctance of society at large to admire the rich who spend self- ishly , a conspiracy , as it were , of social forces which obliges the rich to spend for others . It ...
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... moral consciousness is greater than it is in Europe against the pro- gress of that extravagance , corruption , and vice which accompany a rich , urb- an , mercantile civilization . In Europe , on the other hand , the moral conscious ...
... moral consciousness is greater than it is in Europe against the pro- gress of that extravagance , corruption , and vice which accompany a rich , urb- an , mercantile civilization . In Europe , on the other hand , the moral conscious ...
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... moral and legal codes forbid experimentation on human be- ings without their own consent ; and as the results obtained from cold - blooded animals are commonly inapplicable to ourselves we are obliged to conduct our researches on the ...
... moral and legal codes forbid experimentation on human be- ings without their own consent ; and as the results obtained from cold - blooded animals are commonly inapplicable to ourselves we are obliged to conduct our researches on the ...
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Page 126 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back : you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 276 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 56 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 179 - ... a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Page 92 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 332 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 56 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 186 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 182 - Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone; Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known.
Page 92 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.