The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, Volume 6Reeves and Turner, 1880 |
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... considered as tending to the clear profit of his species . No sane mind in a sane body re- solves upon a real crime . It is a man of violent passions , blood - shot eyes , and swollen veins , that alone can grasp the knife of murder ...
... considered as tending to the clear profit of his species . No sane mind in a sane body re- solves upon a real crime . It is a man of violent passions , blood - shot eyes , and swollen veins , that alone can grasp the knife of murder ...
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... considered . Evidence of a more imposing and irresistible nature is required in proportion to the remoteness of any event from the sphere of our experience . Every case of miracles is a contest of opposite improbabilities , whether it ...
... considered . Evidence of a more imposing and irresistible nature is required in proportion to the remoteness of any event from the sphere of our experience . Every case of miracles is a contest of opposite improbabilities , whether it ...
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... considered . Evidence of a more imposing and irresistible nature is required in proportion to the remoteness of any event from the sphere of our experience . Every case of miracles is a contest of opposite improbabilities , whether it ...
... considered . Evidence of a more imposing and irresistible nature is required in proportion to the remoteness of any event from the sphere of our experience . Every case of miracles is a contest of opposite improbabilities , whether it ...
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... considered as the effect , rather than the cause of motion . The ideas which suggest themselves too are prompted by the circumstances of our situation , these are the elements of thought , and from the various combinations of these our ...
... considered as the effect , rather than the cause of motion . The ideas which suggest themselves too are prompted by the circumstances of our situation , these are the elements of thought , and from the various combinations of these our ...
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... considered as a whole , which is the bond of social life . There should be public mourning when those events take place which make all good men mourn in their hearts , the rule of foreign or domestic tyrants , the abuse of public faith ...
... considered as a whole , which is the bond of social life . There should be public mourning when those events take place which make all good men mourn in their hearts , the rule of foreign or domestic tyrants , the abuse of public faith ...
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Page 46 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 46 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 202 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — -that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death...
Page 51 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Page 202 - One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness, and now rest Where that or thou art no unbidden guest, In the still cave of the witch Poesy, Seeking among the shadows that pass by Ghosts of all things that are...
Page 54 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Page 55 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous 106 Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between , the temple and the altar.
Page 201 - The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters...
Page 46 - And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Page 260 - The shocking absurdities of the popular philosophy of mind and matter, its fatal consequences in morals, and their violent dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It allows its disciples to talk, and dispenses them from thinking. But I was discontented with such a view of things as it afforded ; man is a being of high aspirations, ' looking both before and after...