| 单词 | self-contemplation |
| 例句 | There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it’s a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z By placing visitors in a position of self-contemplation, she hoped to encourage them to question their beliefs in those systems. On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Henry continued: "And it is my hope that the figures will provoke a degree of self-contemplation in the viewer, temporarily lifting them from the sphere of daily life into a different place." 'Self-contemplation' 2011-08-03T13:20:24Z “You don’t have to look far to find a literary writer who misses deadlines and goes on long bouts of self-contemplation,” he said. Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z For Roth, Portnoy set the template for all his work, the exquisite torture of literary self-contemplation. ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Author Mark Pendergrast said, “As our first technology for self-contemplation, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal.” The 1TB Mirror joins a long line of weird LaCie storage devices 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Who has defeated America such that any self-contemplation of the kind I suggest is warranted? American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth 2013-05-26T11:00:00Z Left to herself, and free from the criticism of friends or relations, it would have been strange if Dorothy's estimate of her own powers had not been rather heightened by so much lazy self-contemplation. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z They sit here in twelve throne-like niches, more like presiding deities, each wrapt in self-contemplation, than as tributary witnesses to the truth and omnipotence of Him they are intended to announce. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z "Seek in congenial companionship relief from the mental anxiety by which you are evidently oppressed," said the modern Esculapius—"fly from study and self-contemplation;—above all, court the society of the Marquis de Plusesprit!" The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z "It seeks the highest triumphants of humanity in the exercise of devotion, self-contemplation, and self-denial." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z However specious a form self-contemplation may assume, it inevitably ends in ruin, for it leads to isolation; and what is isolation but the most awful and irretrievable of catastrophes? With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z This same facility of self-contemplation found its way into poetry, and later into novels. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. But in spite of this contention, it may be concluded that this long-tormented sufferer was not altogether unhappy, and a harmless self-contemplation is to be perceived in his Latin verses. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Seeing Huntington absorbed in self-contemplation she gravitated in his direction. The Bachelors A Novel When busied with self-contemplation, we are apt to put either too flattering, or too disparaging an estimate upon ourselves. On the Heights A Novel The Mesmerizer told us she was passing into the fifth stage--that of self-contemplation and detachment from the external world. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. But the self-contemplation of the educated did not extend to the inward life alone: they were equally watchful of their outward appearance, and of the impression which they made on others. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. However, she was neither over-sensitive nor given to self-contemplation and she had perfect faith in her uncle’s judgment. A Daughter of the Forest This, however, only happened in restful moments of complacent self-contemplation. The Blue Goose When self-contemplation has reached its highest degree of abstraction, the state of Nirwana is induced. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies It is clear that he early formed the habit of self-contemplation and of standing apart and looking upon himself as another person. Whitman A Study Even in the n��sis no�se�s of Aristotle, there is room for the transcendent bliss of divine self-contemplation. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Besides why should self-contemplation result in a sphere and contemplation of the First Cause in an Intelligence or angel? A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Startled out of self-contemplation, the older man leaned forward to give his aid to a moment whose bitterness he divined. From the Car Behind Although the Elder may have been less than a Huss, a Calvin, or a Knox in public fame, he had emulated them in self-contemplation and humility. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. They sit here on twelve throne-like niches, more like presiding deities, each wrapt in self-contemplation, than as tributary witnesses to the truth and omnipotence of Him they are intended to announce. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art The fourth was absolute renunciation of the world, self-contemplation and self-torture; by which Perfection was thought to be attained, and the soul merged in the Deity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The second Intelligence again produces a third Intelligence by its contemplation of the First Cause, and by its self-contemplation it creates the second sphere, the sphere of Saturn, which is moved by it. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy While Kant would drive the truant mind back to self-contemplation, he terminates by giving to reason a value and dignity so great that it becomes entitled to decide upon matters of faith. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology I could wish for many of my countrymen that they might live through similar hours of self-contemplation, where a man takes stock of what he has tried to do, and of what he has accomplished. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View This will naturally find its favorite occupation in sentimental self-contemplation, which becomes a sort of fashionable epidemic. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry Those who descend through their own fault, go from world to world, insensibly losing their love of Divine things, and their self-contemplation; until they reach the world Aziath, falling by their own weight. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Catholicism in Italy, confining itself to external demonstrations, dispenses the soul from meditation and self-contemplation. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy The teaching of this life is so selfish; it is all self-contemplation, miserable self-weariness, gloomy reveries bounded by the narrowest horizons. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Unceasing self-contemplation, self-analysis, and self-education have been the fundamental characteristics of my life from the very first, and have remained so until these latest days. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Unmistakable as is the melancholy strain of these verses, they are not without a hopeful afterthought, in which the poet turns from self-contemplation to a view of a larger destiny. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry When he makes the Deity to be an eternal act of self-contemplation, the world is not excluded from His cognizance, for He contemplates it within Himself. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He can eat almost anything and everything, but he cannot long stand self-contemplation. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy And this liking to investigate the hidden inwardness of motives—which many persons, weary of self-contemplation, wisely prefer to keep hidden—ran through the practice of all the arts. The Poetry Of Robert Browning But although the visitors tired him when he felt responsible for their pleasure, he did not shut himself up now any more than at any other time in self-contemplation. George Washington, Volume II Happiness is not found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler The divine quality of active and yet tranquil self-contemplation characterizing intelligence, is pre-eminently possessed by the divine mind; His thought, which is His existence, being, unlike ours, unconditional and wholly act. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry All work is modest, all idle self-contemplation is vain. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Here is a man in possession of two distinct selves,—the one emotional, active; the other eternally occupied in self-contemplation, judgment, and criticism. Without Dogma Like all old and great nations, she was indulging in the pleasing, but dangerous, enjoyment of self-contemplation. The Red Rover He is specifically distinct from both, in that he summons and guides the reason to self-contemplation, to a methodical examination of its capacity for knowledge. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time These words are written under no prompting of idle self-contemplation. The Woman in White On the one hand, absence of communication keeps the mind absorbed in animal self-contemplation; on the other, absence of motion, gradually changing social life into mechanical routine, finally eliminates the idea of will and providence. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery This diseased self-contemplation was not indeed a Jewish complaint at all, nor possible in the bodily presence of the Master. Miracles of Our Lord Happiness is not found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected from another.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 God is more pleasing to thought as self-contemplation, rather than creation. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis So that it was only when my self-contemplation, and with it the inward cleavage, had at length ceased, that I attained to quietude of mind. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth The purpose and end of self-contemplation which becomes aware of our own feebleness is to lead us to the contemplation of God, our immortal strength. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes He leant his burning forehead on his hands and, in self-contemplation, tried to see to the bottom of his soul. The Grip of Desire The object of the Cha-no-yu is to draw man away from the influences of the terrestrial forces which surround him, to plant within him the feeling of complete repose, and to dispose him to self-contemplation. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes A pause like that which accompanies self-contemplation, and perhaps conscious distrust of purpose, succeeded. The Bravo To Armine, indeed, it had been the beginning of a new life of hope and vigour, and a casting off of the slough of morbid self-contemplation, induced by his invalid life, and fostered at Woodside. Magnum Bonum Worthington lay staring at him and them, glad perhaps to be turned for a moment from self-contemplation by any incident, however trifling. In the Wilderness If there be neither vanity nor weak self-contemplation on her side, nor trifling on his part, nor unwise suggestions forced on her by spectators, the honest, genuine affection need never become passion. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 To forms of government the wise man was wholly indifferent; they were among the external circumstances above which his spirit soared in serene self-contemplation. L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits He admires its ways of resignation and self-contemplation but he doesn't contemplate himself in the same way. Essays Before a Sonata He knew how the outward glow of adoring love had faded as the mind was suddenly turned inward to self-contemplation. The Rosary Ethel saw the truth of what her friend had said of the morbid habit of self-contemplation. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Buried in self-contemplation," murmured Martin; "that's the way he always walks. Fraternity There is just enough abstraction in his look to denote his individual power and the capacity for self-contemplation, while he is, nevertheless, quietly and unobtrusively observant. Urban Sketches The half truth, resulting from its being the effect of self-contemplation, makes it more dangerous.' The Heir of Redclyffe When a man, by an absolute disengagement from his senses, is wholly absorbed in self-contemplation, he then discovers the divinity, and becomes himself God. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature "What is the difference between self-contemplation and self-examination?" The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Self-examination notes the symptoms and combats them; self-contemplation does as I did when I was unstrung by that illness at Poonshedagore, and was always feeling my own pulse. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations |
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