The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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... in point of fact , that Mr. Bentham has given any new or decided impulse to the human mind . He cannot be looked upon in the light of a discoverer in legislation or morals . He has not struck out any great leading principle or ...
... in point of fact , that Mr. Bentham has given any new or decided impulse to the human mind . He cannot be looked upon in the light of a discoverer in legislation or morals . He has not struck out any great leading principle or ...
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Has the main prop , which supported the mighty fabric , been shaken and given way under the strong grasp of some Samson ; or has it not rather been undermined by rats and vermin ? At one time , it almost seemed , that “ if this failed ...
Has the main prop , which supported the mighty fabric , been shaken and given way under the strong grasp of some Samson ; or has it not rather been undermined by rats and vermin ? At one time , it almost seemed , that “ if this failed ...
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Here all is fairly made out with strokes of the pencil , by fair , cannot by factitious means . Our author takes a given subject 50 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
Here all is fairly made out with strokes of the pencil , by fair , cannot by factitious means . Our author takes a given subject 50 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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Our author takes a given subject from nature or from books , and then fills it up with the ardent workings of his own mind , with the teeming and audible pulses of his own heart . The effect is entire and satisfactory in proportion .
Our author takes a given subject from nature or from books , and then fills it up with the ardent workings of his own mind , with the teeming and audible pulses of his own heart . The effect is entire and satisfactory in proportion .
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His Life of Chaucer would have given celebrity to any man of letters possessed of three thousand a year , with leisure to write quartos : as the legal acuteness displayed in his Remarks on Judge Eyre's Charge to the Jury would have ...
His Life of Chaucer would have given celebrity to any man of letters possessed of three thousand a year , with leisure to write quartos : as the legal acuteness displayed in his Remarks on Judge Eyre's Charge to the Jury would have ...
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