| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1794 - 446 pages
...thofe falfe appearances by which it was fubdued. The fatires once fo dreaded lofe all their force y the mind judges of things not as they are but as they...experience and compaffionate feeling which never die^ ; . BUT there is alfo a fcience of the heart too frequently neglected, and with which it is necefiary,... | |
| 1798 - 488 pages
...dedicated his work to the Portugueie AmbalTador, to flatter his countrymen by partial reprelbntations of things, not as they are, but as they ought to be ; tor there never was a country, which rtood more in need of ftrong remonftrances to excite them to... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...which it was difmayed : the obfervations once fo dreaded lofe all their flings; the mind views objects not as they are, but as they ought to be; and, feeling a contempt for vice, rifes into a noble enthufiafm for virtue, gaining from the conflict a rational experience... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...could reach it. In fine, we parted, he under the idea that I was an enthusiast, a person who spoke of things not as they are, but as they ought to be, and, in one word, a being, who could not yet make an advantageous bargain, and consequently not of sufficient... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 298 pages
...argument on the theory that our minds consist of a bundle of separate faculties), points to a state of things, not as they are, but as they ought to be ; it propounds a law of duty as an ideal, which it behoves each of us to attempt to realize, irrespective... | |
| Charles Franklin Thwing - Education - 1906 - 556 pages
...of the religious aim, and of seriousness in conduct and character were idealists. They were apostles of things not as they are, but as they ought to be. With them the two conditions of the ideal and practical, which have always ruled in America, had their... | |
| Selling - 1912 - 642 pages
...important requisite for a real-estate salesman is Imagination. One who is to be successful must think of things not as they are but as they ought to be. For example, for 5 years a farmer has made $1,000 a year clear profit on a 100-acre farm and has increased... | |
| Frederick Forrest Berry - Klondike River Valley (Yukon) - 1912 - 530 pages
...they are." It is not a confirmation, but a repudiation! It follows naught, but leads all. It is a god of things, not as they are, but as they ought to be. It smashes the idols. It strikes down the Golden Calf. It blasts the dollar sign. It cauterizes the... | |
| North American review - 1922 - 876 pages
...They may come from a distrust of the mind, a refusal to give up the illusion, a persistence in seeing things not as they are but as they ought to be, and a recourse in the evasions of sentimentality or even of faith. Or they may arise from a man's being... | |
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