RousseauBlackwood, 1882 - 227 sivua |
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Sivu 122 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Sivu 203 - Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Sivu 207 - He has only felt, / during the whole course of his life; and in this respect, his sensibility rises to a pitch beyond what I have seen any example of: but it still gives him a more acute feeling of pain than of pleasure. He is like a man who were stript not only of his clothes, but of his skin, and turned out in that situation to combat with the rude and boisterous elements, such as perpetually disturb this lower world.
Sivu 69 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Sivu 166 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the FUTURE PUNISHMENT.
Sivu 69 - Do not listen to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
Sivu 180 - I know full well that he exists, and that he exists of himself alone; I know that my existence depends on his, and that everything I know depends upon him also. I see God everywhere in his works ; I feel him within myself; I behold him all around me; but if I try to ponder him himself, if I try to find out where he is, what he is, what is his substance, he escapes me and my troubled spirit finds nothing.
Sivu 185 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions ! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...