Formation of a Manly Character a Series of Lectures to Young Men
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He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not, — ^for who is pleased with what he is ?
He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable do- minion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots ...in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the atten- tion; all other intellectual gratifications are Digitized by Google 80 MAKLT CHAKAOTER.
rejected ; the mind, in weariness of leisure, re- curs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the hitterness of truth.
By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic Then fictions hegin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." — Beisselas.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not, — ^for who is pleased with what he is ?
He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire ; amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable do- minion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots ...in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the atten- tion; all other intellectual gratifications are Digitized by Google 80 MAKLT CHAKAOTER.
rejected ; the mind, in weariness of leisure, re- curs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the hitterness of truth.
By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic Then fictions hegin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or of anguish." — Beisselas.
What to read after Formation of a Manly Character a Series of Lectures to Young Men?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George Peck to read onlineMoreLess
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