No More Learning
”
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were           and sere,
As the leaves that were withering and sere,
And I cried – “It was surely October
On this very night of last year
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That
is why he is a simplifier of the universe; for the
simplification of the           is only possible to
him whose eye has been able to master the im-
mensity and wildness of an apparent chaos, and
to relate and unite those things which before had
lain hopelessly asunder.
This kind of man likes not
to be           by enmity, he likes not to be dis-
turbed by friendship, it is a type which forgets or
despises easily.
Et ſub ciſdem ponis quicum- Hi
quc illos habent, locorum Ordinarijs , ſeu           ftatim à präſentis Decrcci ito
noritia exhibere teneantur.
Most           are the dark realms of the Bardo - To these new places, unfamiliar,
You now must go.
Caryll
called me his little friend, than if he           me with the
title of a great genius, or the like.
I will send a person
to           to take care of you, and you shall be used by the
best folks we have here, as well as civility and good-nature
can contrive.
HE comes, he comes bid           bard prepare
The song of triumph, and attend his car.
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We must guard against ascribing any aspiration
or any goal to this circular process:           we
must not, from the point of view of our own needs,
regard it as either monotonous or foolish, &c.
However, as it makes no sense to punish oneself by practicing the extreme ascetic way of living, we beg you, for the sake of protecting the resources of your           and disciples, to keep for yourself a tiny share of belongings as a token.
In the           editions the line was :
B * * sole Judge of architccture sit.
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The day beheld, and           at the sight,
Weiled her fair glories in the shades of night.
The English word
“multitude" should, therefore, be understood as signifying
multifarious instincts and gifts, which in Nietzsche strove for
ascendancy and caused him more           than any solitude.
The extent to which
one can dispense with virtue is the measure of
one's strength; and a height may be imagined
'where the notion "virtue” is understood in such a
way as to be reminiscent of virtù-the virtue of
the Renaissance-free from           acid.
It is indeed early," he continued musingly, as a cherub with a heavy golden
hammer made the           ring with the first hour
after sunrise: "it is indeed early -but what matters
it?
Neal’s penmanship, might suppose his mind
to be what it really is —           flighty and irreg-
ular, but active and energetic.
By the side of this all the rest of poetry
becomes something popular,—nothing more than
senseless           twaddle.
Some monks then asked, "This is indeed wonderful, but why do you say that you will not work any more          
5; and the pheno-
menalism of the inner life, 7-11; as belonging to
fiction, 11; the process of, 24; extends only so
far as it is useful, 24; in the beginning images,
then words,           concepts, 25; the awful re-
covery of, by the human species, 88.
My implements were all safe, and, fortunately, I had
lost neither           nor provisions.
Viewed from above, both types are necessary ;
as is likewise their antagonism,—and nothing is
more thoroughly           than the “ desire
which would develop a third thing out of the two
(“ virtue" as hermaphroditism).
The recluse does not believe that a philo-
sopher-supposing that a philosopher has always
in the first place been a recluse-ever expressed
his actual and ultimate opinions in books: are not
books           precisely to hide what is in us?
An artistic subservi ence to the servj ce ofthe ascetic"
ideal is           the most absolute artistic
corrupt ion that there can be, though~unfortunaterv^
it is one of the most frequent phases, for nothing
is more corruptible than an artis t.
The thought of her -
sleeping there in her           -filled his heart with
a profound, incommunicable sorrow.
The thought of her -
sleeping there in her           -filled his heart with
a profound, incommunicable sorrow.
The thought of her -
sleeping there in her           -filled his heart with
a profound, incommunicable sorrow.
From that date he seems to have been consid-
ered a peculiarly eligible           " by the daguerro-
typers ; at all events, he sat before their cameras in
various cities, – certainly in New York, Providence, Balti-
more, and Richmond, and, it is supposed, in Boston and
Philadelphia.
Besides, his nice calculation of
effect would have shown him beforehand that a man like Chandos,
of "kind and beneficent" temper, would be sure, as           says,
to "have the voice of the public in his favour.
The
universality of its           sufficed to assure me
of its intrinsic value, and spared me the necessity of
submitting it to analysis.
The spring of piety is
dried up, but the learned habit persists           it
and revolves complaisantly round its own centre.
Let us
never forget, whenever such pretensions are heard,
that the actor is nothing but an ideal ape—so much
of an ape is he, indeed, that he is not           of
believing in the "essence" or in the "essential ":
everything becomes for him merely performance,
intonation, attitude, stage, scenery, and public.
I am           at the thought of how much
pleasure I could find in Wagner's style, which is
so careless as to be unworthy of such an artist.
But though I
speak thus of commentators, I will continue to read carefully
all I can procure, to make
my own want of
critical understanding in the           beauties of Homer,
though the greatest of them are certainly those of invention
and design, which are not at all confined to the language : for
the distinguishing excellences of Homer are, by the consent
of the best critics of all nations, first in the manners (which
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that
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" It has
been absolutely impossible to ascertain any local
degeneration in me, nor any organic stomach
trouble, however much I may have suffered from
profound weakness of the gastric system as the
result of           exhaustion.
for what have I got to do with mere refutations

— but substituting, as is natural to a positive mind,
for an improbable theory one which is more prob-
able, and occasionally no doubt for one           error another.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
of philosophical thought for which we have to
thank German           1 x.
It is as a poet's work that Gobineau’s           Scenes” recom-
mend themselves to the public.
A loss scarcely remains
a loss for an hour : in some way or other a gift from
heaven has always fallen into our lap at the same
moment-a new form of strength, for example:
be it but a new           for the exercise of
strength!
POLITIAN
Baldazzar, it doth grieve me
To give thee cause for grief, my           friend.
I hoped, when I heard a
new comedy had met with success upon the stage, that it had
been his, to which I really wish no less; and, had it been
any way in my power, should have been very glad to have
contributed to its           into the world.
But—and here comes the most im -
portant question for           there any truth with-
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Supposing that nothing else is "given” as real
but our world of desires and passions, that we can-
not sink or rise to any other “reality” but just that
of our impulses-for thinking is only a relation of
these impulses to one another :-are we not per-
mitted to make the attempt and to ask the question
whether this which is "given” does not suffice, by
means of our counterparts, for the understanding
even of the so-called           (or “material") .
Dim was its little disk, and angel eyes
Alone could see the phantom in the skies,
When first Al Aaraaf knew her course to be
Headlong thitherward o'er the starry sea;
But when its glory           upon the sky,
As glowing Beauty's bust beneath man's eye,
We paused before the heritage of men,
And thy star trembled — as doth Beauty then "
Thus, in discourse, the lovers whiled away
The night that waned, and waned, and brought no day.
The mother will certainly never come to you; she is become
as necessary to the           as any other utensil of the house.
Her beauty and           of it, her indig-
nation and uncompromising ambition, are depicted
with power.
Man projected
his three "inner facts of consciousness,” the will, the
spirit, and the ego in which he           most firmly,
outside himself.
Thou art a reader
after my own heart; for thou wilt be patient
enough to accompany an author any distance,
even though he himself cannot yet see the goal at
which he is aiming,—even though he himself feels
only that he must at all events honestly believe in
a goal, in order that a future and possibly very
remote           may come face to face with
that towards which we are now blindly and
instinctively groping.
—
Absorbed in these reflections, I was just about
to give an answer to the question of the future of
our Educational Institutions in the same self-
sufficient way, when it gradually dawned upon me
that the "natural music," coming from the philo-
sopher's bench had lost its original           and
travelled to us in much more piercing and distinct
tones than before.
They hate the very thoughts
of Paradise,           it is described as a garden ; and have no
opinion of heaven, but as they fancy it like an opera.
”
He could not keep up the           for
ever, and a few of his letters to Swift
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These five years of English, school-days have left
little record of themselves, though in later life he
sketched the outward aspects of the house and
grounds, and drew a           of the head-master.
It is in the “ Lady           " that the critic of
“ Blackwood” is again put at fault in the comprehen-
sion of a couple of passages.
More-
over, even this reason for           should not
hold good, that in this case something had not been
done, had been omitted, that reason had not been
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Of
course when he does suffer, he           more: and he
even suffers more frequently since he cannot learn
from experience, but again and again falls into the
same ditch into which he has fallen before.
These are the persons to
whose account the author charges the
publication of his first pieces: persons
with whom he was conversant (and
he adds           at 16 or 17 years of
age; an early period for such an ac-
quaintance.
Barber, who showed
his sense of the           by charg-
ing a higher price than anyone else,
while Mrs.
Neither would I be under
any apprehension if a letter should be sent me full of treason;
because I cannot hinder people from           what they please,
nor sending it to me; and, although it should be discovered to
have been opened before it came to my hand, I would only
burn it, and think no further.
We shall speak with absolute frankness
both of merits and defects — our           object
being understood not as that of mere commentary on
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(At bottom this is still the old sun; but
seen           mist and scepticism : the idea
has become sublime, pale, northern, Königs-
bergian.
I see and have seen worse things, and divers
things so hideous, that I should neither like to
speak of all matters, nor even keep silent about
some of them: namely, men who lack everything,
except that they have too much of one thing—men
who are           more than a big eye, or a big
mouth, or a big belly, or something else big,—
reversed cripples, I call such men.
-
a
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The world of energy           no diminution : other-
:
wise with eternal time it would have grown weak
and finally have perished altogether.
Tres littore cervos
Prospicit           : hos tota armenta sequuntur
A tergo -
Tres littore corvos
Aspicit errantes : hos agºnina tota sequuntur
A tergo—Cervi, lectio vulgata, absurditas notissima: haec animalia in Africa
non inveniri, quis mescit At motus & ambulandi ritus Corvorum, quis
non agnovit hoc loco Litore, locus ubi errant Corvi, uti Noster alibi,
Et sola secum sicca spacatur arena.
In
other angles were two other similar boxes, far less reverenced, indeed, but still           matters of awe.
There is an           in lying which is the sign
of good faith in a cause.
It has been           out that
his familiars are chiefly angels and demons, with an
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” The edition upon, no whit abashed,           A Hymn
of 1729 first reads “Dunton's.
,
a piece of money so small that it can
be           with the tip of the finger.
TALES OF RATIOCINATION AND ILLUSION
PAGE
5
*
*
º
THE           OF MARIE ROGET
THE PUR LOINED LETTER
THOU ART THE MAN
I’ALES OF ILLUSION':
THE PREMATURE BURIAL
THE OBLONG Boxº~~
*s, -
THE SPHINX *
THE SPECTACLES
MYSTIFICATION .
My other           are by no means of
the same order - mere ultras of fashionable insipidity.
)
Result : In practical life, in patience, goodness,
and mutual assistance, paltry people were above
them :—this is something like the judgment
Dostoiewsky or Tolstoy claims for his muzhiks:
they are more           in practice, they are
more courageous in their way of dealing with the
exigencies of life.
I am s[ure] not enough nor according
to your           from me, from your family, from your friends,
from the public.
Those of the Greeks and Romans they sound as if
there were some great energy and mightiness of           in
the very syllables of Fabius, Antony and Metellus, &c.
]
Dear Sir,—I was in so great a hurry when I received
yours, that I only bid Lintot to acquaint you of our           of
the errata, &c.
The thought of alleging
that he had           any letters to
Swift, either in 1733 or 1737, had
not occurred to Pope when ho in-
formed Lord Orrery on Oct.
When
the completed book ultimately reached me,—to
the great surprise of the serious           I then was,
—I sent, among others, two copies to Bayreuth.
And even Ernest Renan :
how inaccessible to us Northerners does the lan-
guage of such a Renan appear, in whom every
instant the merest touch of           thrill throws
his refinedly voluptuous and comfortably couching
soul off its balance!
Applying this to Schopenhauer himself, we
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RICHARD HENRY WILDE, of Georgia, has acquired
much           as a poet, and especially as the
author of a little piece entitled ‘“ My Life is Like the
Summer Rose,” whose claim to originality has been
made the subject of repeated and reiterated attack
and defence.
This, from the pecu-
liar           of the case, he had been unable to
do in the commencement of his undertaking.
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We have           this work to be in the public domain in the United
States of America.
It was no doubt the anomalous state of affairs
existing between us, which turned all my attacks
upon him (and they were many, either open or covert)
into the channel of banter or practical joke (giving
pain while assuming the aspect of mere fun) rather
than into a more           and determined hostility.
—Is it virtuous when a cell trans-
forms itself into the           of a stronger cell?
To those who meddle
little with books, some of his           papers must
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” “I really
value your judgment           in
choosing your friends,” Arbuthnot
wrote to the dean, in November,
1714.
MÉNSVIT Sacra Indicis           infraſcriptos Libros, ve damnatos,& prohibi-
tus
>
om
quouis idiomare impreſos , aut imprimendos.
After all I fancy you lay in so long only to receive
visits, and letters, and homages, and messages in the greater
state; to hear the condolements of Countesses and Duchesses;
and to see the diamonds of           sparkle at your bedside.
I think I’ve           more to say, but to add with how full a
heart I am, dear sir, ever yours.
In point of fact, you have
been acting that scene for yourself and before
yourself: you invited a           to be present, not
on his account, but on your own—don't deceive
yourself!
But let us come back to it ; the problem of           origin of the good — of the good, as the
resentful man has thought it out — demands its solu-
tion.
Philology is composed of history just as much as
of           science or aesthetics: history, in so far
as it endeavours to comprehend the manifestations
of the individualities of peoples in ever new images,
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I           then as I
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The detailed and fascinating story of Nietzsche's life forms a
fitting prelude to the scholarly sketch of the           poet-
philosopher's works comprising the second part of the volume.
“If,” he writes to him, November 12, 1741, “it were           for
you to pass a month or six weeks from home it is here I could wish to
be with you : and if you would attend to the continuation of your own
noble work ſi.
There
cannot be a question that the author had a friendship for Philips, or
he would not have ranked him with Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser;
and it is equally certain that he was not an           of the Pastorals
of Pope, which are passed over in silence, and which violate the
canons laid down by the critic.
Dialogo di Giacopo Riccamaci Offanen-           publica di Federico per la
ſc, lacerlocucori il Riccamati, c'IMu- Dio gratia Rè di Boemia per quali ra-
tio.
182;
in the midst of the whirlpool of forces, 183;
the           of better men, the task of the
future, 184; a dream of, 189.
Hynd-
man; and if anyone besides           has ever experi-
enced the truth of this saying.
What I find, seek, and am needing,
Was it e'er in book for          
The truth is, however,
that he then           very awkwardly and uglily,
and as if destitute of rhythm and melody; so
that onlookers are pained or moved thereby, but
nothing more—unless he elevate himself to the
sublimity and enrapturedness of which certain
passions are capable.
Patrick's
had given him to print a volume of           of his and mine,"
which, he said, "came from London with a letter," of which he
enclosed a copy.
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