Impressions of Theophrastus SuchBlackwood, 1879 - 279 頁 |
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acquaintances ADAM BEDE admiration Adrastus agreeable beneficent burlesque carry Cetacean Channel Islands Christianity consciousness consider DANIEL DERONDA desire Dugong effect egoism English expected fact father feel felt Ganymede GEORGE ELIOT give Grampus habit Hebrew Hinze human ideas ignorant illusion imagination impression IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS interest Jews judgment kind knowledge least Lentulus less living look Magicodumbras mankind mean memory mental ments Merman mind mistake Mixtus modern moral motive nature neighbours ness never object observation once opinion original Pepin perhaps persons philosopher poets political poor present race racter reason regard religion religious remark ridiculous Scintilla scorn seemed sense social society sort spiritual subjects superior suppose surprise taste TAUCHNITZ Theophrastus theory things thought tion Touchwood truth Volvox Vorticella Walrus wish words worthy writing young youth Zuzumotzis
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第 277 頁 - I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
第 277 頁 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
第 278 頁 - Jew : not that he should shut out the utmost illumination which knowledge can throw on his national history, but that he should cherish the store of inheritance which that history has left him. Every Jew should be conscious that he is one of a multitude possessing common objects of piety in the immortal achievements and immortal sorrows of ancestors who have transmitted to them a physical and mental type strong enough, eminent enough in faculties, pregnant enough with peculiar promise, to constitute...
第 12 頁 - ... most of all by that reverence for the higher efforts of our common nature, which commands us to bury its lowest fatalities, its invincible remnants of the brute, its most agonizing struggles with temptation, in unbroken silence.
第 265 頁 - The pride which identifies us with a great historic body is a humanising, elevating habit of mind, inspiring sacrifices of individual comfort, gain, or other selfish ambition, for the sake of that ideal whole ; and no man swayed by such a sentiment can become completely abject. That a Jew of Smyrna, where a whip is carried by passengers ready to flog off the too officious specimens of his race, can still be proud to say,
第 142 頁 - I have been amazed to find that some artists whose own works have the ideal stamp are quite insensible to the damaging tendency of the burlesquing spirit which ranges to and fro and up and down on the earth, seeing no reason (except a precarious censorship) why it should not appropriate every sacred, heroic, and pathetic theme which serves to make up the treasure of human admiration, hope, and love.
第 139 頁 - Il ne faut point mettre un ridicule où il n'y en a point : c'est se gâter le goût, c'est corrompre son jugement et celui des autres. Mais le ridicule qui est quelque part , il faut l'y voir, l'en tirer avec grâce , et d'une manière qui plaise et qui instruise.
第 40 頁 - To my father's mind the noisy teachers of revolutionary doctrine were, to speak mildly, a variable mixture of the fool and the scoundrel ; the welfare of the nation lay in a strong Government which could maintain order ; and I was accustomed to hear him utter the word ' Government' in a tone that charged it with awe, and made it part of my effective religion, in contrast with the word
第 143 頁 - ... something besides bread by which man saves his soul alive. The bread-winner of the family may demand more and more coppery shillings, or assignats, or greenbacks for his day's work, and so get the needful quantum of food; but let that moral currency be emptied of its...
第 263 頁 - ... since they rejected Christianity. All which is mirrored in an analogy, namely, that of the Irish, also a servile race, who have rejected Protestantism though it has been repeatedly urged on them by fire and sword and penal laws, and whose place in the moral scale may be judged by our advertisements, where the clause, "No Irish need apply," parallels the sentence which for many polite persona sums up the question of Judaism — "I never did like the Jews.