 If you believe that our civilization is founded in common sense ( and it is the first condition of sanity to believe it), you will, when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces,...  The Mid-west Quarterly - Pàgina 871916Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1926 - 550 pàgines
...must take into his mind these things: "If you believe that our civilization is founded on common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead ; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful;... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 110 pàgines
...it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. If you believe that our civilization is founded in common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful ; never... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 120 pàgines
...it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. If you believe that our civilization is founded in common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe it), you will, when contemplating men, discern a Sp_irit_ overhead ; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 258 pàgines
...radical ; yet nothing is more characteristic of his view of life than his saying 'our civilisation is founded in common sense, and it is the first condition of sanity to believe it.' This cuts him off as a thinker from Tolstoi and from Edward Carpenter, whose only hopes are in a totally... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 250 pàgines
...it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. If you believe that our civilization is founded in common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful; never... | |
 | Ernst Dick - 1910 - 234 pàgines
...etwas länger (Seite 88 — 89). „U you belleve that our civilisation is founded in common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful; never... | |
 | George Meredith - 1910 - 236 pàgines
...it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. If you believe that our civilization is founded in common-sense (and it is the first condition of sanity to believe...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful; never... | |
 | George Meredith - 1917 - 512 pàgines
...these words of his famous Essay: "If you believe that our civilization is founded in common-sense, you will, when contemplating men, discern a Spirit...faun lurks at the corners of the half-closed lips. ... Its common aspect is one of unsolicitous observation. . . . Men's future upon earth does not attract... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pàgines
...Meredith generalises on the Comic Spirit that he gives us so true a picture of Shakespearean humour. It has the sage's brows, and the sunny malice of a...the half-closed lips drawn in an idle wariness of half-tension. It shows sunlight of the mind, mental richness rather than noisy enormity. Its common... | |
 | George Meredith - 1918 - 380 pàgines
...and comedy; and the test of jrue comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter. If you believe that our civilization is founded in common sense (and...when contemplating men, discern a Spirit overhead; not more heavenly than the light flashed upward from glassy surfaces, but luminous and watchful; never... | |
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