The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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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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The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
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The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
The same object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things
thrown into masses give a greater blow to the imagination than when scattered
and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
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Could our imagination take wing ( with our speculative faculties ) to the other side
of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our
reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts ...
Could our imagination take wing ( with our speculative faculties ) to the other side
of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our
reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts ...
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What the proportion between the good and the evil will really be found in any of
the supposed cases , may be a question to the understanding ; but to the
imagination and the heart , that is , to the natural feelings of mankind , it admits of
none !
What the proportion between the good and the evil will really be found in any of
the supposed cases , may be a question to the understanding ; but to the
imagination and the heart , that is , to the natural feelings of mankind , it admits of
none !
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