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... reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason ...
... reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason ...
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... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say ...
... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say ...
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... reason . The extreme violence of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos ...
... reason . The extreme violence of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos ...
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... reason to think that he would have overstepped the line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his par- liaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the ...
... reason to think that he would have overstepped the line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his par- liaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the ...
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... reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle . These fanatics brought to civil and mili- tary affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought ...
... reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle . These fanatics brought to civil and mili- tary affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought ...
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Página 468 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 39 - 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. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Página 159 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 538 - 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...
Página 6 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 91 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
Página 386 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 418 - ... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great...