Word: reached
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take the matter into their own hands, and it can only be hoped that in the present instance, at least, the suggestion may reach those who alone have authority to make the change...
...seeks, the greater his happiness, it being always kept in mind that no failure is allowed, unless he would feel that he has lived in vain. The moral is not far to seek; rid yourself, as far as possible, of all uneasy desires for what is beyond your reach, and direct all your endeavors towards some goal not so far off but that it may be reached in an ordinary lifetime, and, reaching it, be satisfied. One word, in the preceding, is ambiguous, "happiness"; but it is not necessary to enter into the discussion whether duty is a motive...
...sickness, that my journal is quite unintelligible. Think I sailed for Christiania from a city in England called Ull (spelled with an H on the map). Having bought a guide-book and a conversation-manual, I leave Christiania and strike out boldly for the interior. Intend ultimately to reach Drontheim...
...begins his work by pointing us down into the abyss of the unknowable. Alpine travellers tell us that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet...
...harmonized are not mind and matter, but the "wholes amid which alone the spirit feels at home, and the atoms or points with which science has to do." It is only by an honest synthesis in our minds of the results of the analysis of science that we can reach the glory of the ideal...