Selections from Standard Authors: For the Benefit of the Prison InmatesState Office, J.D. Young, Superintendent State Printing, 1888 - 90 sider |
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Aristotle Bacon become better character CHESTERFIELD civil Confucius conversation crocodile danger Dickens difficulty Discretion duty endure errors evanescent evil excuses eyes faults feel forget friendship give glish glory good-breeding grip habit Hamerton happiness heart Herodotus historical novels honest honor hope Hugh Miller human imagination incubus indulge inmates intel intellectual justly kind knowledge labor laws learned literature live look Lord Lord Bacon man's manners means memory mental mind misfortune moral narrow walls nature never opinion opium ourselves passions perfection person pleasure poetry President Porter Prison reader reason regrets remember SAMUEL SMILES sense sentiment Shakespeare skip society sorrows soul speak spirit strength sure talk taste tell temper temptation things thought tion tivate true truth University of California vanity virtue wisdom wise words write wrong youth
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Side 5 - ... ..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most '
Side 81 - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad: darkness and lights: tempest and human faces: and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed, — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Side 20 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 74 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Side 79 - ... to attempt. He lies under the weight of incubus and night-mare ; he lies in sight of all that he would fain perform, just as a man forcibly confined to his bed by the mortal languor of a relaxing disease, who is compelled to witness injury or outrage offered to some object of his tenderest love : — he...
Side 79 - Into these dreams only it was, with one or two slight exceptions, that any circumstances of physical horror entered. All before had been moral and spiritual terrors. But here the main agents were ugly birds...
Side 74 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Side 33 - The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.
Side 36 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too.
Side 75 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such unexhausted sources of perfection! We know not yet what we shall be; nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical...