The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits ..., Том 1H. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... passion , sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The ...
... passion , sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The ...
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... passion ! It has been made a plea ( half jest , half earnest ) for the horrors of war , that they promote trade and manufactures . It has been said , as a set - off for the atrocities practised upon the negro slaves in the West Indies ...
... passion ! It has been made a plea ( half jest , half earnest ) for the horrors of war , that they promote trade and manufactures . It has been said , as a set - off for the atrocities practised upon the negro slaves in the West Indies ...
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... passion . A man is a drunkard , and you tell him he ought to be sober ; he is debauched , and you ask him to reform ; he is idle , and you recommend industry to him as his wisest course ; he gambles , and you remind him that he may be ...
... passion . A man is a drunkard , and you tell him he ought to be sober ; he is debauched , and you ask him to reform ; he is idle , and you recommend industry to him as his wisest course ; he gambles , and you remind him that he may be ...
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... passion , the victim of habit or necessity . To argue with strong passion , with inveterate habit , with desperate circum- stances , is to talk to the winds . Clownish ignorance may indeed be dispelled , and taught better ; but it is ...
... passion , the victim of habit or necessity . To argue with strong passion , with inveterate habit , with desperate circum- stances , is to talk to the winds . Clownish ignorance may indeed be dispelled , and taught better ; but it is ...
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... passion ; but with the unlimited scope of private opinion , and in a boundless field of speculation ( for nothing less would satisfy the pretensions of the New School ) , there was danger that the unseasoned novice might sub- stitute ...
... passion ; but with the unlimited scope of private opinion , and in a boundless field of speculation ( for nothing less would satisfy the pretensions of the New School ) , there was danger that the unseasoned novice might sub- stitute ...
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