Het leven en de werken van Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli)

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Elsevier, 1920
 

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Page 176 - So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to the end. Generation after generation takes to itself the Form of a Body ; and forthissuing from Cimmerian Night, on Heaven's mission APPEARS. What Force and Fire is in each he expends : one grinding in the mill of Industry ; one hunter-like climbing the giddy Alpine heights of Science ; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife, in war with his fellow, — and then the Heaven-sent is recalled ; his earthly Vesture falls away, and soon even...
Page 176 - ... and glide bodeful, and feeble, and fearful; or uproar and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead, — till the scent of the morning air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day? Where now is Alexander of Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle-shouts at Issus and Arbela, remain behind him; or have they all vanished utterly, even as perturbed Goblins must? Napoleon too, and his Moscow Retreats and Austerlitz Campaigns! Was it all other than the veriest...
Page 175 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is...
Page 176 - Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance ; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility ? This is no metaphor, it is a simple scientific fact : we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions ; round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity ; and to Eternity minutes are as years and seons.
Page 176 - Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth ; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth, which is but dead, and a vision, resist Spirits which have reality and are alive ? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped-in ; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van.
Page 176 - Thus, like some wildflaming, wild-thundering train of Heaven's Artillery, does this mysterious MANKIND thunder and flame, in long-drawn, quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane ; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth ; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are leveled, and her seas filled up, in our passage...
Page 73 - Primo: de waarheid van het spreekwoord, dat de kleine dieven gehangen worden, terwijl men de groote laat loopen. Secundo: dat de zaak te veel ruchtbaarheid had gekregen, om nu nog gesmoord te worden. Tertio: dat de knevelarij in Lebak al zeer erg moet geweest zijn, wanneer zelfs een Resident, die zoo gaarne schipperde en zoo ongaarne een inlandsch hoofd vervolgde, constateren moest dat er werkelijk reden tot klagen bestond. En bij gevolg, quarto: dat Havelaar volkomen gelijk had.
Page 176 - Strife, in war with his fellow: — and then the Heaven-sent is recalled; his earthly Vesture falls away, and soon even to Sense becomes a vanished Shadow. Thus, like some wild-flaming, wildthundering train of Heaven's Artillery, does this mysterious MANKIND thunder and flame, in long-drawn, quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep.
Page 37 - Excellentie, toen bragt ik meermalen, als het mij niet gelukt was den huur van een klein inlandsch huisje te betalen, den nacht onder den blooten hemel door. Erger dan dat, ik was veracht en verstoten door eene maatschappij die mij voor een schurk hield, want de Gouverneur had het gezegd! Niemand groette mij, niemand kende mij, niemand liet zich met mij in, want ik stond op het punt om eerloos te worden. Zoo leefde ik twaalf maanden, Uwe Excellentie, als het leven heeten mag, worstelen als het was,...
Page 176 - O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion ? They are dust and shadow; a Shadowsystem gathered round...

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