Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... an indifferent third person . In short , experience seems to show that every book , prepared with a view to mere book - making , is necessarily a sort of counterfeit , bearing the same relation 2 EVERETT'S MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS .
... an indifferent third person . In short , experience seems to show that every book , prepared with a view to mere book - making , is necessarily a sort of counterfeit , bearing the same relation 2 EVERETT'S MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS .
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... relation to a real book , which the juggling of the Egyptian magicians did to the miracles of Moses . But not to push these ideas to extravagance , it may be sufficient for the present purpose to say that Madame de Sévigné , without ...
... relation to a real book , which the juggling of the Egyptian magicians did to the miracles of Moses . But not to push these ideas to extravagance , it may be sufficient for the present purpose to say that Madame de Sévigné , without ...
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... relations . He was equally unsuc- cessful here . Some told him he deserved all he suffered ; and others that he was a poor creature , and that his family could not ruin itself to gratify his whims . The most friendly gave him no answer ...
... relations . He was equally unsuc- cessful here . Some told him he deserved all he suffered ; and others that he was a poor creature , and that his family could not ruin itself to gratify his whims . The most friendly gave him no answer ...
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... relation , he resorted for aid to the editor of the French gazette . Luckily for him this person proved to be a man of sense and kindness a sage not accord- ing to the degenerate fashion of modern times , but after the manner of the ...
... relation , he resorted for aid to the editor of the French gazette . Luckily for him this person proved to be a man of sense and kindness a sage not accord- ing to the degenerate fashion of modern times , but after the manner of the ...
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... relation , the princess Mary M , as our biographer writes her name , with laudable discretion . She had used her inter- est in favor of St Pierre at the time of his imprisonment . To make repeated visits of acknowledgments to a fair ...
... relation , the princess Mary M , as our biographer writes her name , with laudable discretion . She had used her inter- est in favor of St Pierre at the time of his imprisonment . To make repeated visits of acknowledgments to a fair ...
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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...