The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits |
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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 ...
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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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... stress on the cooperation of the natural prejudices of mankind , and the
habitual feelings of that class of persons for whom they are more particularly
designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) 16 THE SPIRIT OF THE
AGE .
... stress on the cooperation of the natural prejudices of mankind , and the
habitual feelings of that class of persons for whom they are more particularly
designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) 16 THE SPIRIT OF THE
AGE .
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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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Oh ! and is all forgot ? Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it
suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by looking at it
through the paltry , broken , stained fragments of our own interests and
prejudices ?
Oh ! and is all forgot ? Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it
suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by looking at it
through the paltry , broken , stained fragments of our own interests and
prejudices ?
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