"Free spirit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that when he was asked what he had left for himself, he answered, "My hopes;" and his hope was not merely to conquer that great world, but to tame it, bring it into order, and teach the men there the wisdom and free spirit of the Greek world; for he had learnt from Aristotle that to make men true, brave, virtuous, and free was the way to be godlike. It was in his favour that the direct line of Persian kings had failed, and that there had been wars and factions all through the ...
— Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Revolutionary measures deprecated by (note), i. 366; extract from a speech of, on the free spirit of the colonies, i. 371; on the infatuation of government in provoking resistance in the colonies, i. 412; language of, in commendation of the proceedings of the continental Congress, i. 448; his commendation of the state-papers of the first continental ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... Chaplin has had ample time to work them out. Christmas, 1921, was the fifth consecutive Christmas that he has spent in prison. The poems bear the impress of the bars, but they ring with the glad vigor of a free spirit that bars ...
— Bars and Shadows • Ralph Chaplin
... extraordinary work, perhaps the last Rembrandt painted, is modelled with prodigious vigour and freedom. With superb audacity, the master shows us once more the familiar features, on which age and sorrow have worked their will. They are distorted, disfigured, almost unrecognisable. But the free spirit is still unbroken. The eyes that meet ours are still keen and piercing; they have even the old twinkle of good-humoured irony, and the toothless mouth relaxes in frank laughter. What was the secret of this gaiety? In spite of his poverty, he had still a corner in which to paint. ...
— Rembrandt • Mortimer Menpes
... not a novel, but rather the confession of a free spirit telling of its mistakes, its sufferings and its struggles from the midst of the tempest; and it is in no sense an autobiography either. Some day I may wish to write of myself, and I will then speak without any disguise or feigned name. Though ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain
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