Short Talks with the Dead and OthersCayne Press, 1926 - 208 pagine |
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Pagina 173 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desires distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Pagina 34 - Datur haec venia antiquitati, ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat; et si cui populo licere oportet consecrare origines suas et ad deos referre auctores, ea belli gloria est populo Romano ut cum suum conditorisque sui parentem Martem potissimum ferat tam et hoc gentes humanae patiantur aequo animo quam imperium patiuntur.
Pagina 90 - Behold, my child, the Nordic Man And be as like him as you can. His legs are long; his mind is slow; His hair is lank and made of tow. And here we have the Alpine Race. Oh! What a broad and foolish face! His skin is of a dirty yellow, He is a most unpleasant fellow. The most degraded of them all Mediterranean we call; His hair is crisp, and even curls, And he is saucy with the girls.
Pagina 174 - Whether perfect happiness would be procured by perfect goodness " — that admirable speech which begins, " Whether perfect happiness would be procured by perfect goodness this world will never afford an opportunity of deciding " (I wish I could write like that!) and again, " All that virtue can afford is quietness of conscience, a steady prospect of a happier state : this may enable us to endure calamity with patience: but remember that patience must suppose pain.
Pagina 56 - Goldberg study (1959) 40 per cent of the respondents stated that if they had their lives to live over again they would choose either another field of psychology or some other profession, such as medicine or law. Again, without comparisons with other professional groups it is difficult to interpret such a figure. In a survey of 158 psychologists in the state of Oregon, very few, only 8...
Pagina 176 - Why should we endeavour to attain that of which the possession cannot be secured? I shall henceforward fear to yield my heart to excellence however bright, or to fondness however tender, lest I should lose again what I have lost in Pekuah.
Pagina 20 - Never in the whole history of the world did so many people believe so firmly in so many things, the authority for which they could not test, as do Londoners to-day."4 Here would seem to lurk three gross fallacies. In the first place, the complexity of modern life compels the Londoner to face a multitude of ideas, right or wrong, out of all proportion to those of the medieval peasant, the narrow...
Pagina 118 - All creatures great and small, The streptococcus is the test — I love him least of all.
Pagina 91 - ... or in a pleasant country house, standing in its own park-like grounds. That is the general rule; he is, however, sometimes born in a parsonage and rather more frequently in a Deanery or a Bishop's Palace, or a Canon's house in a Close. Some of this type have been born in North Oxford; but none (that I can discover) in the provincial manufacturing towns, and certainly none east of Charing Cross or south of the river. The Nordic Man has a nurse to look after him while he is a baby, and she has...
Pagina 177 - What is to be expected from our pursuit of happiness, when we find the state of life to be such that happiness itself is the cause of misery ? ' and to this the old woman's shaking fingers add : ' Oh melancholy Truth, to which my heart bears witness.