Anatole France, the Parisian, المجلد 265Dodd, Mead, 1927 - 394 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 97 - Satire, is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
الصفحة 88 - France," says M. SainteBeuve, "the first consideration for us is not whether we are amused and pleased by a work of art or mind, nor is it whether we are touched by it. What we seek above all to learn is, whether we were right in being amused with it, and in applauding it, and in being moved by it.
الصفحة 243 - Renan may be so carried away by the tide of opinion in France where he lives, as to say that Nature cares nothing about chastity, and to see with amused indulgence the worship of the great goddess Lubricity, let us stand fast, and say that her worship is against nature, human nature, and that it is ruin.
الصفحة 35 - The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.
الصفحة 3 - A SCEPTIC IN RELIGION Is one that hangs in the balance with all sorts of opinions, whereof not one but stirs him and none sways him. A man guiltier of credulity than he is taken to be; for it is out of his belief of everything, that he fully believes nothing.
الصفحة 35 - By thy name that in hell-fire was written, and burned at the point of thy sword. Thou art smitten, thou God, thou art smitten; thy death is upon thee. O Lord! And the love-song of earth as thou diest resounds through the winds of her wings — Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.
الصفحة 7 - Saul into another man," 4 that is to say, into a prophet, when " people said one to another, What is this which is come to the son of Kish ? Is Saul also among the prophets ? " s than did the evil spirit afterwards turn him into another man — in other words, into an apostate.
الصفحة 360 - ... by his wit, or gave irresistible piquancy to a coarse allusion, and his indignation is not mitigated by any knowledge of the temptation that lies in transcendent .power.
الصفحة 286 - There is no doubt, however, that I have caused unhappiness to great numbers. But for me three great wars would not have taken place, eighty thousand men would not have been killed and would not now be mourned by parents, brothers, sisters, and widows.
الصفحة 155 - Wo get very wearied of the persistent identification of the church throughout the dark ages with fraud and imposture and sinister selfseeking, when we have once learnt, what is undoubtedly the most important principle in the study of those times, that it was the churchmen who kept the flickering light of civilisation alive amid the raging storms of uncontrolled passion and violence.