The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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His reputation lies at the circumference ; and the lights of his understanding are reflected , with increasing lustre , on the other side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains ...
His reputation lies at the circumference ; and the lights of his understanding are reflected , with increasing lustre , on the other side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains ...
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... 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 parent - 8 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
... 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 parent - 8 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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it for this , that students at the bar , acute , inquisitive , sceptical ( here only wild enthusiasts ) neglected for a while the paths of preferment and the law as too narrow , tortuous , and unseemly to bear the pure and broad light ...
it for this , that students at the bar , acute , inquisitive , sceptical ( here only wild enthusiasts ) neglected for a while the paths of preferment and the law as too narrow , tortuous , and unseemly to bear the pure and broad light ...
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... and in the vain strife between fanatic innovation and fanatic prejudice , we are exhorted to dethrone this queen of the world , to blot out this light of the mind , to deface this fair column , to break in pieces this golden chain !
... and in the vain strife between fanatic innovation and fanatic prejudice , we are exhorted to dethrone this queen of the world , to blot out this light of the mind , to deface this fair column , to break in pieces this golden chain !
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... nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and snatches of old ballads , so that the result resembles a gaudy , staring transparency , in which you not distinguish the daubing of the painter from the light that shines ...
... nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and snatches of old ballads , so that the result resembles a gaudy , staring transparency , in which you not distinguish the daubing of the painter from the light that shines ...
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