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Page 52
... but now to the multitude and suffering also thy voice comes , bidding them ' bate no jot of heart or hope , ' with archangelic power and melody . THE LIFE OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . BY HIS SON 52 PAPERS ON LITERATURE AND ART .
... but now to the multitude and suffering also thy voice comes , bidding them ' bate no jot of heart or hope , ' with archangelic power and melody . THE LIFE OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . BY HIS SON 52 PAPERS ON LITERATURE AND ART .
Page 64
... come near other minds in the usual ways , he will probably talk well . Put the most eloquent talkers cannot always converse even pleasingly ; of this Madame de Staël herself was a striking in- stance . To take up a subject and harangue ...
... come near other minds in the usual ways , he will probably talk well . Put the most eloquent talkers cannot always converse even pleasingly ; of this Madame de Staël herself was a striking in- stance . To take up a subject and harangue ...
Page 65
... come up to his ideal stand- ard ; it is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength , still upward and onward . Accordingly the wisest and greatest men are ever the ...
... come up to his ideal stand- ard ; it is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength , still upward and onward . Accordingly the wisest and greatest men are ever the ...
Page 73
... come down to us , thus far , whose interest is almost exclusively of the same na- ture ; in which , at least , moral conflict does not constitute the prominent interest . To one who has read Scott's novels first , and looks in his poems ...
... come down to us , thus far , whose interest is almost exclusively of the same na- ture ; in which , at least , moral conflict does not constitute the prominent interest . To one who has read Scott's novels first , and looks in his poems ...
Page 87
... come . He has lived through this expe- rience for us , and shown us that the natural fruits of indulgence in such a temper are dissonance , cynicism , irritability , and all uncharitableness . Accordingly , since his time the evil has ...
... come . He has lived through this expe- rience for us , and shown us that the natural fruits of indulgence in such a temper are dissonance , cynicism , irritability , and all uncharitableness . Accordingly , since his time the evil has ...
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