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... ( that is not the nature of the material ) — but it might be plausibly objected that
he had struck the whole mass of fancy , prejudice , passion , sense , whim , with
his petrific , leaden mace , that he had “ bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced
the ...
... ( that is not the nature of the material ) — but it might be plausibly objected that
he had struck the whole mass of fancy , prejudice , passion , sense , whim , with
his petrific , leaden mace , that he had “ bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced
the ...
Сторінка 11
Our moral sentiments are made up of sympathies and antipathies , of sense and
imagination , of understanding and prejudice . The soul , by reason of its
weakness , is an aggregating and an exclusive principle ; it clings obstinately to
some ...
Our moral sentiments are made up of sympathies and antipathies , of sense and
imagination , of understanding and prejudice . The soul , by reason of its
weakness , is an aggregating and an exclusive principle ; it clings obstinately to
some ...
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C The Spirit of the Age was never more fully shewn than in its treatment of this
writer - its love of paradox and change , its dastard submission to prejudice and
to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in the very zenith
of a ...
C The Spirit of the Age was never more fully shewn than in its treatment of this
writer - its love of paradox and change , its dastard submission to prejudice and
to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in the very zenith
of a ...
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... the foundation of law , the beacon of nations , the golden chain let down from
heaven , which links all accountable and all intelligent natures in one common
system - and in the vain strife between fanatic innovation and fanatic prejudice ,
we ...
... the foundation of law , the beacon of nations , the golden chain let down from
heaven , which links all accountable and all intelligent natures in one common
system - and in the vain strife between fanatic innovation and fanatic prejudice ,
we ...
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... that he has displayed a more ardent spirit , and a more independent activity of
thought than others , in establishing the fallacy ( if fallacy it be ) of an old popular
prejudice that the Just and True were one , by “ championing it to the Outrance ...
... that he has displayed a more ardent spirit , and a more independent activity of
thought than others , in establishing the fallacy ( if fallacy it be ) of an old popular
prejudice that the Just and True were one , by “ championing it to the Outrance ...
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