There are four classes of idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names--calling the first ...class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nature of Man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formatio...n of the State. The necessity of the colonists wrote the law. Their wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities, and to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted; it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through them to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half- witted, because we appreciate only a third ...part of their wit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days--whatever there may be for the d...ust--the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untr...ied, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental ca...re, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »