The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those
studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself
up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand ...
He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those
studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself
up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand ...
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... see the lively old man , his mind still buoyant with thought and with the
prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some
expatriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close
Boroughs ...
... see the lively old man , his mind still buoyant with thought and with the
prospect of futurity , in eager conversation with some Opposition Member , some
expatriated Patriot , or Transatlantic Adventurer , urging the extinction of Close
Boroughs ...
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His eye is quick and lively ; but it glances not from object to object , but from
thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and
inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a
...
His eye is quick and lively ; but it glances not from object to object , but from
thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and
inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a
...
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... the subjects of which he treats , in a masterly and scientific manner ; but we
should find a difficulty in adducing from his different works ( however elaborate or
closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illustration .
... the subjects of which he treats , in a masterly and scientific manner ; but we
should find a difficulty in adducing from his different works ( however elaborate or
closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illustration .
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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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