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Page 241
... Montesquieu ; a name less idolized perhaps in France , but much more ge- nerally respected in other countries . It is very curious to compare his great work on the Spi- rit of Laws , with some of the principal philosophical com ...
... Montesquieu ; a name less idolized perhaps in France , but much more ge- nerally respected in other countries . It is very curious to compare his great work on the Spi- rit of Laws , with some of the principal philosophical com ...
Page 242
... Montesquieu every thing is different . Art there is none ; and of order very little . The subjects chosen as heads of thought , are connected only by being allied to a common ancestor - mere collaterals , not succeeding by any regular ...
... Montesquieu every thing is different . Art there is none ; and of order very little . The subjects chosen as heads of thought , are connected only by being allied to a common ancestor - mere collaterals , not succeeding by any regular ...
Page 243
... Montesquieu was a little fond of odd out - of - the - way reading ; and he is apt to talk rather too much of Japan and the kingdom of Bantam , and the people of Meaco . But this fault , if it be one , is , in our estimation , far more ...
... Montesquieu was a little fond of odd out - of - the - way reading ; and he is apt to talk rather too much of Japan and the kingdom of Bantam , and the people of Meaco . But this fault , if it be one , is , in our estimation , far more ...
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... Montesquieu has been twice mentioned by Mr. Burke in terms of the highest admiration ; in the Thoughts on the cause of the present Discontents , as the first writer of the age ; and in the Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old , as an ...
... Montesquieu has been twice mentioned by Mr. Burke in terms of the highest admiration ; in the Thoughts on the cause of the present Discontents , as the first writer of the age ; and in the Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old , as an ...
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... Montesquieu's reflections , though remarkably original , and frequently profound , are at times hasty and inaccurate . He ac- quiesced too readily in his first thoughts . His mind was so constituted , that he rather caught the truth by ...
... Montesquieu's reflections , though remarkably original , and frequently profound , are at times hasty and inaccurate . He ac- quiesced too readily in his first thoughts . His mind was so constituted , that he rather caught the truth by ...
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Page 189 - Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd." and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Page 188 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 207 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 189 - Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Page 190 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 188 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 145 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without: and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Page 176 - ... transference of the name of the first to the second ; and that, in consequence of the other affinities which connect the remaining objects together, the same name may pass in succession from B to C ; from C to D ; and from D to E ? In this manner a common appellation will arise between A and E, although the two objects may, in their nature and properties, be so widely distant from each other, that no stretch of imagination can conceive how the thoughts were led from the former to the latter.
Page 185 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 147 - As for our senses, by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations, ideas, or those things that are immediately perceived by sense, call them what you will; but they do not inform us that things exist without the mind, or unperceived, like to those which are perceived.