Literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson. France and Voltaire. Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Frederick the Great and Macaulay. Albert Dürer. The Brothers Grimm. Bettina Von Arnim. Dante on [i.e. And] the Recent Italian StruggleCupples, Upham, 1886 - 297 psl. |
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... prince of essayists . Van Helmont said : " It is my greatest desire that it may be granted unto atheists to have tasted , at least for one moment , what it is intellectually to under- stand . These men strain nerve and muscle to climb ...
... prince of essayists . Van Helmont said : " It is my greatest desire that it may be granted unto atheists to have tasted , at least for one moment , what it is intellectually to under- stand . These men strain nerve and muscle to climb ...
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... understand what high value the prince attached to a friendly intercourse with the greatest poet of his age . Voltaire's seductive flatteries denote no less plainly the intention to profit by this VOLTAIRE AND FREDERICK THE GREAT . 97.
... understand what high value the prince attached to a friendly intercourse with the greatest poet of his age . Voltaire's seductive flatteries denote no less plainly the intention to profit by this VOLTAIRE AND FREDERICK THE GREAT . 97.
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... prince , who has also sent him his picture . To both these rumors Frederick was far from indiffer- ent . To invite Voltaire to visit him at Rheinsberg , at a time when , to raise only twelve thousand thalers behind the back of his ...
... prince , who has also sent him his picture . To both these rumors Frederick was far from indiffer- ent . To invite Voltaire to visit him at Rheinsberg , at a time when , to raise only twelve thousand thalers behind the back of his ...
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... prince , but would have chosen a more direct and friendly way . Voltaire could not fail to perceive that Frederick understood him and was on his guard , and he soon found out who gave Frederick the key to his character and proceedings ...
... prince , but would have chosen a more direct and friendly way . Voltaire could not fail to perceive that Frederick understood him and was on his guard , and he soon found out who gave Frederick the key to his character and proceedings ...
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... prince , in thinking over his campaign , may have had to reproach himself with , and what had been his own mistakes . He reviews and criticises Charles's career in its main features . " My intention was , " he begins , " to obtain for ...
... prince , in thinking over his campaign , may have had to reproach himself with , and what had been his own mistakes . He reviews and criticises Charles's career in its main features . " My intention was , " he begins , " to obtain for ...
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30 psl. - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
5 psl. - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
148 psl. - Ambition, interest, the desire of making people talk about me, carried the day ; and I decided for war.
31 psl. - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us. and not the history of theirs?
43 psl. - Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men ; they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and actually, or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
43 psl. - The search after the great is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. We travel into foreign parts to find his works, — if possible, to get a glimpse of him. But we are put off with fortune instead. You say the English are practical; the Germans are hospitable; in Valencia the climate is delicious; and in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering. Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable...
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