Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 páginas |
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... important principle . proper to supernatural agents . We feel tha we could talk with his ghosts and demons , without any emotions of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily in their company His ...
... important principle . proper to supernatural agents . We feel tha we could talk with his ghosts and demons , without any emotions of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily in their company His ...
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... important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced ; it is a vantage ground to which we ...
... important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced ; it is a vantage ground to which we ...
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... important of all human relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at ...
... important of all human relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at ...
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... important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for- became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a profession , it was not service of contending parties ...
... important branch of war profession was a bond of union not to be for- became a separate profession . Beyond the gotten , even when they were engaged in the Alps , indeed , though a profession , it was not service of contending parties ...
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... importance , he acquitted him- self with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive_col ... important occasions Ma- chiavelli was admitted to his society : once , at the moment when his sp.endid villany ...
... importance , he acquitted him- self with great dexterity . His despatches form one of the most amusing and instructive_col ... important occasions Ma- chiavelli was admitted to his society : once , at the moment when his sp.endid villany ...
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Página 287 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 16 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 16 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 16 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 401 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
Página 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Página 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Página 65 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.
Página 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 16 - ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.