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... common sense - Grave irony IV . The poet - Comparison of Swift and Voltaire - Gravity and harsh- ness of his jests - Bickerstaff - Coarseness of his gallantry- Cadenus and Vanessa- His prosaic and realistic poetry - The Grand Question ...
... common sense - Grave irony IV . The poet - Comparison of Swift and Voltaire - Gravity and harsh- ness of his jests - Bickerstaff - Coarseness of his gallantry- Cadenus and Vanessa- His prosaic and realistic poetry - The Grand Question ...
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... common sense - Religious emotions - Final piety PAGE 393 - 393 III . Circumstances which gave rise to the novels of the eighteenth cen- tury - All these novels are moral fictions and studies of character -Connection of the essay and the ...
... common sense - Religious emotions - Final piety PAGE 393 - 393 III . Circumstances which gave rise to the novels of the eighteenth cen- tury - All these novels are moral fictions and studies of character -Connection of the essay and the ...
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... common sense , with their fundamental honesty , they have put their fingers on the secret plague - spot . A society cannot be founded only on the pursuit of pleasure and power ; a society can only be founded on the respect for liberty ...
... common sense , with their fundamental honesty , they have put their fingers on the secret plague - spot . A society cannot be founded only on the pursuit of pleasure and power ; a society can only be founded on the respect for liberty ...
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... common sense and practical , sprung from the laboring and independent class , the very heart and sinews of the nation . His father , a brave yeoman , had a farm of about four pounds a year , on which he employed half a dozen men , with ...
... common sense and practical , sprung from the laboring and independent class , the very heart and sinews of the nation . His father , a brave yeoman , had a farm of about four pounds a year , on which he employed half a dozen men , with ...
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... common lands by their enclosures , he details the needs of the peasant , without the least care for conventional proprieties ; he is not working now for conventionalities , but to produce convictions : " A plough land must have sheep ...
... common lands by their enclosures , he details the needs of the peasant , without the least care for conventional proprieties ; he is not working now for conventionalities , but to produce convictions : " A plough land must have sheep ...
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Page 305 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 122 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 336 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Page 439 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Page 22 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent ; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 252 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 103 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. But, when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 22 - We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, To the glory...
Page 97 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 118 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...