The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... nature , it cannot be destroyed . But Mr. Bentham's forte is arrangement ; and the form of truth , though not its essence , varies with time and circumstance . He has methodised , collated , and condensed all the mate- rials prepared to ...
... nature , it cannot be destroyed . But Mr. Bentham's forte is arrangement ; and the form of truth , though not its essence , varies with time and circumstance . He has methodised , collated , and condensed all the mate- rials prepared to ...
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... nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will . " He has not allowed for the wind . " It is not that you can be said to see his favourite doctrine of Utility glittering everywhere through his system , like a vein of ...
... nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will . " He has not allowed for the wind . " It is not that you can be said to see his favourite doctrine of Utility glittering everywhere through his system , like a vein of ...
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William Hazlitt. shining ore ( that is not the nature of the material ) — but it might be plausibly objected that he had struck the whole mass of fancy , prejudice , passion , sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had ...
William Hazlitt. shining ore ( that is not the nature of the material ) — but it might be plausibly objected that he had struck the whole mass of fancy , prejudice , passion , sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had ...
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... nature . It needs helps and stages in its progress , and " all appliances and means to boot , " which can raise it to a partial conformity to truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the ...
... nature . It needs helps and stages in its progress , and " all appliances and means to boot , " which can raise it to a partial conformity to truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the ...
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... nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or con- demn them accordingly . The ...
... nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or con- demn them accordingly . The ...
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Сторінка 143 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Сторінка 362 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Сторінка 58 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Сторінка 398 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Сторінка 262 - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
Сторінка 363 - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Сторінка 382 - Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Сторінка 191 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Сторінка 145 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 383 - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.