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... society is philosophical , that of a half - civilised people is poetical . This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a ...
... society is philosophical , that of a half - civilised people is poetical . This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a ...
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... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
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... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
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... society are , therefore , hired to relieve the rest from a task inconsistent with their habits and engagements . The history of Greece is , in this , as in many other respects , the best com- mentary on the history of Italy . Five ...
... society are , therefore , hired to relieve the rest from a task inconsistent with their habits and engagements . The history of Greece is , in this , as in many other respects , the best com- mentary on the history of Italy . Five ...
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... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
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Страница 538 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Страница 21 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Страница 22 - Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the Evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice. It was for him that the sun had been darkened, that the rocks...
Страница 351 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Страница 184 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
Страница 396 - ... knots an hour against the wind. These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow.
Страница 511 - England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans. The number of the prisoners was one hundred and forty-six. When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives...
Страница 21 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Страница 4 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Страница 22 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.