Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... answered , my purpose is with the fire to burn paradise , and with my water to quench the flames of hell , that men may serve God purely for the love of God . But we rarely meet with such spirits which love virtue so metaphysically as ...
... answered , my purpose is with the fire to burn paradise , and with my water to quench the flames of hell , that men may serve God purely for the love of God . But we rarely meet with such spirits which love virtue so metaphysically as ...
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... answer . He at length suc- ceeded in discovering the place , where her pa- rents had lived : travelled thither , found them dead , but an uncle surviving ; and from him learnt , that the patient had been charitably taken by an old ...
... answer . He at length suc- ceeded in discovering the place , where her pa- rents had lived : travelled thither , found them dead , but an uncle surviving ; and from him learnt , that the patient had been charitably taken by an old ...
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... answers no purpose ; unless indeed a difficulty can be solved by multi- plying it , or that we can acquire a clearer notion of our soul , by being told that we have a million souls , and that every atom of our bodies has a soul of its ...
... answers no purpose ; unless indeed a difficulty can be solved by multi- plying it , or that we can acquire a clearer notion of our soul , by being told that we have a million souls , and that every atom of our bodies has a soul of its ...
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... of " This is the house that Jack built . " The sic Deo placitum est we all admit as the sufficient cause , and the divine goodness as the sufficient reason ; but an answer to the whence ? and why ? is no answer to the how ? 134.
... of " This is the house that Jack built . " The sic Deo placitum est we all admit as the sufficient cause , and the divine goodness as the sufficient reason ; but an answer to the whence ? and why ? is no answer to the how ? 134.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. and why ? is no answer to the how ? which alone is the physiologist's concern . It is a mere sophisma pigrum , and ( as Bacon hath said ) the arrogance of pusillanimity , which lifts up the idol of a mortal's ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. and why ? is no answer to the how ? which alone is the physiologist's concern . It is a mere sophisma pigrum , and ( as Bacon hath said ) the arrogance of pusillanimity , which lifts up the idol of a mortal's ...
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