Great Autobiographies: Types and Problems of Manhood and WomanhoodB.W. Huebsch, 1908 - 50 страници |
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Abelard and Heloise active Alcaforado aspects of personal attitude autobiog B. W. HUEBSCH Benvenuto Cellini Biography of Sonya Bohn Library translation causes Charles Gore Child COMPARATIVE STUDIES Abelard Compare Amiel Compare Eugénie Compare Sonya Kovalevsky Confessions Contrast early effect ence epoch Eugénie de Guérin everything evident experience feel friendship furnace genius George John Romanes Goethe's happiness heart Infelicia insight John Addington Symonds John Stuart Mill Jonas Lie Leffler live Loti's Story Love Letters Maimon Mamie Rose manhood and womanhood Marie Bash Memoirs Menken Mill and Loti mood nature never period personal relationship Pierre Loti Præterita previously studied problem is central problems of personal Profundis purpose in writing raphy relation religion religious problem Salvini Significance spirit STUDY AND DISCUSSION Symonds TEXT things thoughts Tolstoy TOPICS FOR STUDY truth type of personality types of womanhood unfulfilled character vocation vols whole woman woman's problem women York YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Страница 9 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be great joy and happiness to you?
Страница 10 - I found the fabric of my old and taught opinions giving way in many fresh places, and I never allowed it to fall to pieces, but was incessantly occupied in . weaving it anew.
Страница 10 - I was thus, as I said to myself, left stranded at the commencement of my voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail ; without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for: no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have dried up within me, as completely as those of benevolence.
Страница 10 - But as a Secretary conducting political correspondence, I could not issue an order or express an opinion, without satisfying various persons very unlike myself, that the thing was fit to be done. I was thus in a good position for finding out by practice the mode of putting a thought which gives it easiest admittance into minds not prepared for it by habit...
Страница 9 - I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life.
Страница 9 - MILL, opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own: and thus the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters...
Страница 17 - It was built of bricks, so interlaced, the one above the other, that numerous apertures were left for the fire to exhale at. Then I began to lay on wood by degrees, and kept it burning two whole days and nights. At length, when all the wax was gone, and the mould was well baked, I set to work at digging the pit in which to sink it.
Страница 21 - I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God, the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness ; and although from henceforth the precept to ' work while it is day ' will doubtless but gain an intensified force from the terribly intensified meaning of the words that 'the night cometh when no man can work,' yet when at times I think, as think at times I must, of the appalling contrast between the hallowed glory of that creed which once was mine, and the lonely mystery of existence...
Страница 17 - The labour was more than I could stand; yet I forced myself to strain every nerve and muscle. To increase my anxieties, the workshop took fire, and we were afraid lest the roof should fall upon our heads; while, from the garden, such a storm of wind and rain kept blowing in, that it perceptibly cooled the furnace. Battling thus with all these untoward circumstances for several hours, and exerting myself beyond even the measure of my powerful constitution, I could at last bear up no longer, and a...
Страница 45 - People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.