Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
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... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James II . no private virtues ? Was even Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James II . no private virtues ? Was even Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
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... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
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... fact , however , seems to have been , that Machiavelli , despairing of the lib- erty of Florence , was inclined to support any government which might preserve her independence . The interval which separated a democracy and a despotism ...
... fact , however , seems to have been , that Machiavelli , despairing of the lib- erty of Florence , was inclined to support any government which might preserve her independence . The interval which separated a democracy and a despotism ...
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... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
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Стр. 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Стр. 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Стр. 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Стр. 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Стр. 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Стр. 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Стр. 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Стр. 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Стр. 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Стр. 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...