The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 2Derwent Coleridge 1863 |
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... least ground for supposing that the crimes of Nero were less instrumental in bringing about our pre- sent advantages , than the virtues of the Antonines . Lastly ; the criterion is either nugatory or false . It is demonstrated , that ...
... least ground for supposing that the crimes of Nero were less instrumental in bringing about our pre- sent advantages , than the virtues of the Antonines . Lastly ; the criterion is either nugatory or false . It is demonstrated , that ...
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... least ) respect- able congregation , four - fifths of whom professed that they went to church entirely for the example's sake ; in other words to cheat each other and act a common lie ! These rational Christians had not considered that ...
... least ) respect- able congregation , four - fifths of whom professed that they went to church entirely for the example's sake ; in other words to cheat each other and act a common lie ! These rational Christians had not considered that ...
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... least , find any difficulty in converting your criterion into an authority for his act ? What should prevent a man , whose perceptions and judgments are so strangely dis- torted , from arguing , that nothing is more devoutly to be ...
... least , find any difficulty in converting your criterion into an authority for his act ? What should prevent a man , whose perceptions and judgments are so strangely dis- torted , from arguing , that nothing is more devoutly to be ...
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... least be aware of , the misguided men who have enlisted under the banners of liberty , from no principles or with bad ones : whether they be those , who admire they know not what , And know not whom , but as one leads to the other ...
... least be aware of , the misguided men who have enlisted under the banners of liberty , from no principles or with bad ones : whether they be those , who admire they know not what , And know not whom , but as one leads to the other ...
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... conceived likely to have been the case , or at least equivalent to it . In the tale that follows , I present an instance of the same causes * Poet . Works , vol . i . 219.-Ed. acting upon the mind to the production of conduct as D 2.
... conceived likely to have been the case , or at least equivalent to it . In the tale that follows , I present an instance of the same causes * Poet . Works , vol . i . 219.-Ed. acting upon the mind to the production of conduct as D 2.
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Page 230 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 230 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 230 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 173 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Page 170 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 230 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 168 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 174 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 117 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Page 220 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...