The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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To shew how little the refinements of taste or fancy enter into our author's system , he proposed at one time to cut down these beautiful trees , to convert the garden where he had breathed the air of Truth and Heaven for near half a ...
To shew how little the refinements of taste or fancy enter into our author's system , he proposed at one time to cut down these beautiful trees , to convert the garden where he had breathed the air of Truth and Heaven for near half a ...
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... like a vein of rich , shining ore ( 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 ...
... like a vein of rich , shining ore ( 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 ...
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... equivalent to a sentiment , than a seriatim enumeration of square yards or feet touches the fancy like the JEREMY BENTHAM . 13.
... equivalent to a sentiment , than a seriatim enumeration of square yards or feet touches the fancy like the JEREMY BENTHAM . 13.
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tion of square yards or feet touches the fancy like the sight of the Alps or Andes ! To give an instance or two of what we mean . Those who on pure cosmopolite principles , or on the ground of abstract humanity affect an extraordinary ...
tion of square yards or feet touches the fancy like the sight of the Alps or Andes ! To give an instance or two of what we mean . Those who on pure cosmopolite principles , or on the ground of abstract humanity affect an extraordinary ...
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... nor fanned by the breeze of fancy ! This is the effect of all bold , original , and powerful thinking , that it either discovers the truth , or detects where error lies ; and the only crime with which WILLIAM GODWIN . 47.
... nor fanned by the breeze of fancy ! This is the effect of all bold , original , and powerful thinking , that it either discovers the truth , or detects where error lies ; and the only crime with which WILLIAM GODWIN . 47.
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