Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... truth . He professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his infer- ences as in his citations . Some of the ...
... truth . He professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his infer- ences as in his citations . Some of the ...
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... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
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... truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction . He who , in an enlightened and literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of ...
... truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction . He who , in an enlightened and literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of ...
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... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half - blind in the house of bondage . But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence ...
... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half - blind in the house of bondage . But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence ...
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... truth , they scarcely entered at all into the merits of the political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought ; but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of ...
... truth , they scarcely entered at all into the merits of the political question . It was not for a treacherous king or an intolerant church that they fought ; but for the old banner which had waved in so many battles over the heads of ...
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