Literary Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932 - 702 páginas |
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... philosophy would indeed have done little good . But anything was better than the old habit of unreasoning servility . It was something to have a choice of tyrants . ' A spark of freedom , as Gibbon has justly remarked , ' was produced ...
... philosophy would indeed have done little good . But anything was better than the old habit of unreasoning servility . It was something to have a choice of tyrants . ' A spark of freedom , as Gibbon has justly remarked , ' was produced ...
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... philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better than a philosophy which assuages pain . But we know that there are remedies which will assuage pain ; and we know that the ancient ...
... philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better than a philosophy which assuages pain . But we know that there are remedies which will assuage pain ; and we know that the ancient ...
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... philosophy in its old age . We know that guns , cutlery , spy - glasses , clocks , are better in our time than they ... philosophy which boasted that its object was the elevation and purification of the mind , and which for this object ...
... philosophy in its old age . We know that guns , cutlery , spy - glasses , clocks , are better in our time than they ... philosophy which boasted that its object was the elevation and purification of the mind , and which for this object ...
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MACHIAVELLI March 1827 | 51 |
MR ROBERT MONTGOMERYS POEMS April 1830 | 136 |
MOORES LIFE OF BYRON June 1830 | 157 |
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