 Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, this inheritor of a few years and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights, and add to his frequent pains,...  Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays - Page 42by John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1902 - 564 pages
...put forward in the capricious manner which was his habit : ' Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling : that this ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, the inheritor of a few years and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights and add to his... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Great Plains - 1892 - 322 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling; that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 454 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling; that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 452 pages
...implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling : thatthis ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust,...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 456 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling : that this ennobled...delights, and add to his frequent pains, and live for an fdeal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 452 pages
...hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling : thatthisennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, this...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Authors, English - 1902 - 324 pages
...man has yet aspirations and imperfect virtues. ' Of all earth's meteors,' he says, ' here, at least, is the most strange and consoling ; that this ennobled...pains and live for an ideal, however misconceived.' This view implies his sympathy with the publican as against the Pharisee. We should cherish whatever... | |
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