Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1856 - 744 páginas |
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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into ...
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... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and litera- ture of Italy , to read , without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Ma- chiavelli . Such a ...
... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and litera- ture of Italy , to read , without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Ma- chiavelli . Such a ...
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... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are read- ing of times , in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and ...
... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are read- ing of times , in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and ...
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... scarcely yields to the account which Fal- staff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
... scarcely yields to the account which Fal- staff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
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... scarcely avoid . They arise , for the hortation with which the Prince concludes , most part , from a single defect which appears shows how strongly the writer felt upon this to us to pervade his whole system . In his po subject ...
... scarcely avoid . They arise , for the hortation with which the Prince concludes , most part , from a single defect which appears shows how strongly the writer felt upon this to us to pervade his whole system . In his po subject ...
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Página 401 - Antioch — when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. 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 368 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment ; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this, — the People will assuredly...
Página 16 - Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means. They went through the world like Sir...
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 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 401 - Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Página 38 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of any thing ; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 13 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise, were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love, and victorious in war.* Such a spirit is Liberty.
Página 13 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.