Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... VOLTAIRE , 172 THE ART OF BEING HAPPY , 201 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CANOVA , 234 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH , 283 CICERO ON GOVERNMENT , 338 A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT ; BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND MONTESQUIEU , CHINESE MANNERS , THE SABBATH , • 382 409 ...
... VOLTAIRE , 172 THE ART OF BEING HAPPY , 201 THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CANOVA , 234 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH , 283 CICERO ON GOVERNMENT , 338 A DIALOGUE ON GOVERNMENT ; BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND MONTESQUIEU , CHINESE MANNERS , THE SABBATH , • 382 409 ...
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... Voltaire , whose genius was perhaps equal to that of any of the Homerites , attempted in cold blood , to make just such a book ; and here , again , the product , called the Henriade , is no book , but another lump of fricasseed snow ...
... Voltaire , whose genius was perhaps equal to that of any of the Homerites , attempted in cold blood , to make just such a book ; and here , again , the product , called the Henriade , is no book , but another lump of fricasseed snow ...
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... Voltaire has somewhere thrown out hints of the same kind ; but we are not aware that any formal disquisition had been published on the question until the appearance of the Spanish translation of Father Isla , preceded by a preliminary ...
... Voltaire has somewhere thrown out hints of the same kind ; but we are not aware that any formal disquisition had been published on the question until the appearance of the Spanish translation of Father Isla , preceded by a preliminary ...
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... Voltaire , as those of the contemporary writers . Hence , these articles became , as they are entitled in this collection , a course of lectures on the dramatic literature of France ; and what they want in solidity from the ephemeral ...
... Voltaire , as those of the contemporary writers . Hence , these articles became , as they are entitled in this collection , a course of lectures on the dramatic literature of France ; and what they want in solidity from the ephemeral ...
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... Voltaire was the principal objection to his theory , and he accordingly loses no opportunity of attacking him with any weapon that is most convenient . The collection is interspersed with occasional digressions on subjects of moral ...
... Voltaire was the principal objection to his theory , and he accordingly loses no opportunity of attacking him with any weapon that is most convenient . The collection is interspersed with occasional digressions on subjects of moral ...
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Сторінка 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Сторінка 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Сторінка 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Сторінка 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Сторінка 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Сторінка 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Сторінка 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Сторінка 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...