Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Volume 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... fact , produced one of the most agreeable and really valuable books that have ever been written . Her letters are not sermons , or essays in disguise , but were composed , without any view to publication , for the purpose of talking on ...
... fact , produced one of the most agreeable and really valuable books that have ever been written . Her letters are not sermons , or essays in disguise , but were composed , without any view to publication , for the purpose of talking on ...
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... fact , possess great qualities , combined with some great weaknesses , and did eclipse the glory of most of his predecessors . Madame de Sévigné repeatedly gives her opinion , in pretty plain terms , upon the insane passion for war ...
... fact , possess great qualities , combined with some great weaknesses , and did eclipse the glory of most of his predecessors . Madame de Sévigné repeatedly gives her opinion , in pretty plain terms , upon the insane passion for war ...
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... fact , to be no fixed principles in these matters . St. John , surnamed for his eloquence the Golden Mouth , ( Chrysostom , ) who habitually thundered from his patriar- chal pulpit against every thing licentious in word or action ...
... fact , to be no fixed principles in these matters . St. John , surnamed for his eloquence the Golden Mouth , ( Chrysostom , ) who habitually thundered from his patriar- chal pulpit against every thing licentious in word or action ...
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... fact , which , if true , was certainly not so notorious or undisputed as this article would make it appear . The assertion proves nevertheless , that there was a current report of this de- scription . Voltaire has somewhere thrown out ...
... fact , which , if true , was certainly not so notorious or undisputed as this article would make it appear . The assertion proves nevertheless , that there was a current report of this de- scription . Voltaire has somewhere thrown out ...
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... facts , if true , would rather serve to confute , than to establish the system of Father Isla , since a long residence in ... fact , done little or nothing toward establishing the claims of his country to the authorship of Gil Blas . The ...
... facts , if true , would rather serve to confute , than to establish the system of Father Isla , since a long residence in ... fact , done little or nothing toward establishing the claims of his country to the authorship of Gil Blas . The ...
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Page 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Page 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Page 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Page 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...