The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... reason is , that our author's influence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and gene- ral truths , and to those studies- " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed ...
... reason is , that our author's influence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and gene- ral truths , and to those studies- " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed ...
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... reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is himself a capital logician ; and he has been led by this circumstance to consider man as a logical animal . We fear this view of the matter will hardly hold water ...
... reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is himself a capital logician ; and he has been led by this circumstance to consider man as a logical animal . We fear this view of the matter will hardly hold water ...
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... reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we ...
... reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we ...
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... reason would afford but a feeble resistance to violence and wrong . The will , which is necessary to give consistency and promptness to our good intentions , cannot extend so much can- dour and courtesy to the antagonist principle of ...
... reason would afford but a feeble resistance to violence and wrong . The will , which is necessary to give consistency and promptness to our good intentions , cannot extend so much can- dour and courtesy to the antagonist principle of ...
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... reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What wonder that so little progress has been made towards a mutual un- derstanding between the two parties ! They ...
... reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What wonder that so little progress has been made towards a mutual un- derstanding between the two parties ! They ...
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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...
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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.