English Prose
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共 40 段- I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of
- This she effected, not by her own sayings or personal author
- The experiences of this period had two very marked effects o
- Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life,
- Now from these instances, to which many more might be added,
- Let it be clearly understood, I repeat it, that I am not tak
- The great results of the scientific investigation of nature
- _Defuit una mihi symmetria prisca_,--"The antique symmetry w
- Every book that we take up without a purpose is an opportuni
- In general, a good thing spoils out-of-door prospects: it sh
- Joking, however, is, it must be admitted, a dangerous habit.
- Thus every traveller has occasionally done a sunrise, and a
- We talk much of utilities,--but 'tis our manners that associ
- Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are
- How this crisis will be brought about, no one can with any c
- the sudden, sweeping generalisations, the absurd irrelevant
- In our essential function of indicating the better men, we n
- But the great cause of inequality is in the natural monopoly
- Another question, here naturally arising, is--"Are not these
- Again, think of the microscopic fungus--a mere infinitesimal
- Therefore, in seeking for the origin of protoplasm, we must
- I have thought this digression worth giving, because we may
- The following cases relate to dogs. Mr. Colquhoun winged two
- In our houses we should have little light except when the su
- Toward midday, after a long, tingling scramble through copse
- This rise and fall of Walden at long intervals serves this u
- One of the most remarkable characters of natural leafage is
- These three motives of action have all this common character
- The central conception of this philosophy of self-control wa
- Certainly Christianity has no ambition to invade the provinc
- What light can a study of the spirit of loyalty, as I just d
- In speaking of loyalty and insight I have also given an indi
- So far we have assumed that this antithesis of substance and
- The character of Greek tragedy was determined from the very
- As Dante, the Italian man, was sent into our world to embody
- Compared with any speaker or singer one knows, even with Aes
- And, in effect, a very delicate and expressive portrait of h
- They all gathered round her. One caught both her hands in hi
- On that first storey, the doors stood ajar, three of them li
- (_a_) R.W. Emerson, _Nature_, in "Essays, Second Series:" Th