Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively ...
... believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been his aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been exclusively ...
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... believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with ...
... believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilization which surrounded him or from the learning which he had acquired : and he looked back with ...
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... believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury . He may refer all human actions to self- interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more VOL . I. - 2 influence his poetry ...
... believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury . He may refer all human actions to self- interest , like Helvetius , or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more VOL . I. - 2 influence his poetry ...
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... believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore , produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it ...
... believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of having something more definite to adore , produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it ...
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... believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost any other writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously , through a long ...
... believe that he was poetically in the right . This task , which almost any other writer would have found impracticable , was easy to him . The peculiar art which he possessed of communicating his meaning circuitously , through a long ...
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