The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.] |
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... a stupid idol set up on its pedestal of pride for men to fall down and worship with idiot fear and wonder at the thing themselves have made , and which , without that fear and wonder , would in itself be nothing !
... a stupid idol set up on its pedestal of pride for men to fall down and worship with idiot fear and wonder at the thing themselves have made , and which , without that fear and wonder , would in itself be nothing !
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... intermediate use of rules and principles , without the ' vantage ground of habit , without the levers of the understanding , than the mechanist can discard the use of wheels and pulleys , and perform every thing by simple motion .
... intermediate use of rules and principles , without the ' vantage ground of habit , without the levers of the understanding , than the mechanist can discard the use of wheels and pulleys , and perform every thing by simple motion .
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We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a ...
We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a ...
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The thing is impossible . The laws of the country are , therefore , ineffectual and abortive , because they are made by the rich for the poor , by the wise for the ignorant , by the respectable and exalted in station for the very scum ...
The thing is impossible . The laws of the country are , therefore , ineffectual and abortive , because they are made by the rich for the poor , by the wise for the ignorant , by the respectable and exalted in station for the very scum ...
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Has he any thing to shew , in all the apparatus of New Lanark and its desolate monotony , to excite the thrill of imagination like the blankets made of wreaths of snow under which the JEREMY BENTHAM . 23.
Has he any thing to shew , in all the apparatus of New Lanark and its desolate monotony , to excite the thrill of imagination like the blankets made of wreaths of snow under which the JEREMY BENTHAM . 23.
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