George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
law rooms action
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
law rooms action
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
men tables dead-man
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
life answers action
The shortest answer is doing.
two effects
That which two will, takes effect.
wisdom half
Pleasing ware is half sold.
love heart good-heart
A good heart cannot lye
men old-man supper
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
He that sends a foole expects one.
applying call certain others scientist situation solving
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
directly events experience future including passage passing present process
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
dealt experience individual phases social standpoint various
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
method settling utterly
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
aware becomes gives himself human individual others role thus
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.