The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his
speculations concern humanity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or
the bills of mortality . It is in moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best
near ...
Otherwise , his reasonings , if true at all , are true everywhere alike : his
speculations concern humanity at large , and are not confined to the hundred or
the bills of mortality . It is in moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best
near ...
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... intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our
feelings evaporate in so large a spacewe must draw the circle of our affections
and duties somewhat closer — the heart hovers and fixes nearer home . It is true
...
... intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we are , our
feelings evaporate in so large a spacewe must draw the circle of our affections
and duties somewhat closer — the heart hovers and fixes nearer home . It is true
...
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... or are we dishonest now ? Or was the impulse of the mind less likely to be true
and sound when it arose from high , thought and warm feeling , than afterwards ,
when it was warped and debased by the example D 2 WILLIAM GODWIN . 35.
... or are we dishonest now ? Or was the impulse of the mind less likely to be true
and sound when it arose from high , thought and warm feeling , than afterwards ,
when it was warped and debased by the example D 2 WILLIAM GODWIN . 35.
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... an old popular prejudice that the Just and True were one , by “ championing it
to the Outrance , ” and in the final result placing the Gothic structure of human
virtue on an humbler , but a wider and safer foundation than it had hitherto
occupied ...
... an old popular prejudice that the Just and True were one , by “ championing it
to the Outrance , ” and in the final result placing the Gothic structure of human
virtue on an humbler , but a wider and safer foundation than it had hitherto
occupied ...
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... that ever read it could possibly forget it , or speak of it after any length of time , *
Mr . Fuseli used to object to this striking delineation a want of historical
correctness , inasmuch as the animating principle of the true chivalrous character
was the ...
... that ever read it could possibly forget it , or speak of it after any length of time , *
Mr . Fuseli used to object to this striking delineation a want of historical
correctness , inasmuch as the animating principle of the true chivalrous character
was the ...
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