The Infirmities of Genius, Nide 1Saunderss and Otley, 1833 |
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Sivu 13
... errors accompany their career , that fame and frailty would almost seem to be insepa- rable companions . Perhaps it is wisely ordained that such should be the case , to check the pride of human intellect , and to render those of humbler ...
... errors accompany their career , that fame and frailty would almost seem to be insepa- rable companions . Perhaps it is wisely ordained that such should be the case , to check the pride of human intellect , and to render those of humbler ...
Sivu 15
... errors of genius are es- timated too often by their immediate conse- quences , without any reference to predisposing causes . The fact is , the carriage of genius is unlikely to conciliate strangers , while its foibles are calculated to ...
... errors of genius are es- timated too often by their immediate conse- quences , without any reference to predisposing causes . The fact is , the carriage of genius is unlikely to conciliate strangers , while its foibles are calculated to ...
Sivu 17
... errors of genius to the tomb , take into consideration , or are capable of estimating the influence on the physical and moral constitution of studious habits inordinately pursued , of mental exertion long continued , of bodily exercise ...
... errors of genius to the tomb , take into consideration , or are capable of estimating the influence on the physical and moral constitution of studious habits inordinately pursued , of mental exertion long continued , of bodily exercise ...
Sivu 18
... errors , and to make his imperfections so many pegs for disquisition on perverted talents . Of all persons who sacrifice their peace for the attainment of notoriety , literary men are most frequently made the subject of biography ; but ...
... errors , and to make his imperfections so many pegs for disquisition on perverted talents . Of all persons who sacrifice their peace for the attainment of notoriety , literary men are most frequently made the subject of biography ; but ...
Sivu 19
... errors exaggerated by the medium through which they have been viewed , it ceases to be a legitimate inquiry into private character , or pub- lic conduct , and no infamy is comparable to that of magnifying the faults , or libelling the ...
... errors exaggerated by the medium through which they have been viewed , it ceases to be a legitimate inquiry into private character , or pub- lic conduct , and no infamy is comparable to that of magnifying the faults , or libelling the ...
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Sivu 29 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Sivu 128 - But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who is a mean dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation?" Not in the least. He made himself a mean dirty fellow for that very end. He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it; and will you envy him his bargain? Will you hang your head and blush in his presence because he outshines you in equipage and show?
Sivu 168 - I ventured to tell him, that I had been, for moments in my life, not afraid of death; therefore I could suppose another man in that state of mind for a considerable space of time. He said, 'he never had a moment in which death was not terrible to him.
Sivu 179 - Every thing about his character and manners was forcible and violent ; there never was any moderation. Many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine : but when he did eat, it was voraciously ; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
Sivu 94 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Sivu 178 - I never k'new any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the. moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor. would he, unless when in very high company, say one word, or even pay the least attention to what was said by others, till he had satisfied his appetite, which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins • of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong perspiration...
Sivu 107 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to " the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Sivu 188 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to...
Sivu 173 - ... his reason to disentangle him. This was his anxious care, to go out or in at a door' or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot, (I am not certain which,) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with...
Sivu 37 - The first is their negligence: "Other men look to their tools, a painter will wash his pencils, a smith will look to his hammer, anvil, forge: an husbandman will mend his ploughirons, and grind his hatchet if it be dull; a falconer or huntsman will have an especial care of his hawks, hounds, horses, dogs, &c.