 Timon had so faithfully carried out his idea of "being, not doing," that she had found his "divine growth" both an expensive and unsatisfactory process. Here her husband struck into the conversation, his face shining with the light and joy of the splendid...  Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands - Страница 1551915 - 185 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
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...revision of our proceedings it would seem, that if we are in the right course in our particular instance, the greater part of man's duty consists in leaving alone much that he is in the habit of doing. It is a fasting from much of the present activity, rather than an increased... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1888 - 354 страници
...splendid dreams and high ideals hovering before him. " In these steps of reform, we do not rely BO much on scientific reasoning or physiological skill...claim property in any created thing? Shall I trade? ShalH adopt a form of religion? Shall I interest myself in politics ? To how many of these questions... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1915 - 654 страници
...revision of our proceedings it would seem, that if we were in the right course in our particular instance, the greater part of man's duty consists in leaving alone much that he is in the habit of doing. It is a fasting from the present activity, rather than an increased indulgence... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1988 - 520 страници
...preference to doing is the great aim, and this comes to us rather by a resigned willingness than a willful activity, which is a check to all divine growth,"...interest myself in politics? To how many of these questions—could we ask them deeply enough and could they be heard as having relation to our eternal... | |
 | Madeleine B. Stern - 2002 - 244 страници
...revision of our proceedings it would seem, that if we were in the right course in our particular instance, the greater part of man's duty consists in leaving alone much that he is in the habit of doing. It is a fasting from the present activity, rather than an increased indulgence... | |
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