Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... less according to the character of the writer . In the present case , this accidental value is very high , in consequence of the extraordinary merit and talent of Madame de Sévigné , and the elevated sphere in which she moved . It has ...
... less according to the character of the writer . In the present case , this accidental value is very high , in consequence of the extraordinary merit and talent of Madame de Sévigné , and the elevated sphere in which she moved . It has ...
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... less intimate , with all the prominent political men , from the King downwards . Her superior intellect and literary tastes and habits also gave her an interest in the current literature . The popular authors and their books are among ...
... less intimate , with all the prominent political men , from the King downwards . Her superior intellect and literary tastes and habits also gave her an interest in the current literature . The popular authors and their books are among ...
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... less degree of diffi- culty with which the defect of personal observation might have been supplied by study . In some instances the presumption amounts to a certainty . No Frenchman or Englishman could have possibly identified his whole ...
... less degree of diffi- culty with which the defect of personal observation might have been supplied by study . In some instances the presumption amounts to a certainty . No Frenchman or Englishman could have possibly identified his whole ...
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... the knowledge supposed is not less copious and accurate , than that which is actually brought out . The most curious circumstances , or those which a foreigner would infallibly consider such , are often 4 * WHO WROTE GIL BLAS ? 41.
... the knowledge supposed is not less copious and accurate , than that which is actually brought out . The most curious circumstances , or those which a foreigner would infallibly consider such , are often 4 * WHO WROTE GIL BLAS ? 41.
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... less obvious , principally in the manner of wri- ting the names of places and persons . Some of these so glaring , that it is difficult to reconcile them with any theory in respect to the author , and they must be viewed by all as ...
... less obvious , principally in the manner of wri- ting the names of places and persons . Some of these so glaring , that it is difficult to reconcile them with any theory in respect to the author , and they must be viewed by all as ...
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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...