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... habit of assailing indiscriminately both sides in politics , and thought that it contributed to injure the Liberal cause , which none could hold dearer than Hazlitt . There was something in this , of course ; and it is curious to ...
... habit of assailing indiscriminately both sides in politics , and thought that it contributed to injure the Liberal cause , which none could hold dearer than Hazlitt . There was something in this , of course ; and it is curious to ...
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... habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster , overlooking the Park , like an anchoret in his cell , reducing law to a system , and the mind of ...
... habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster , overlooking the Park , like an anchoret in his cell , reducing law to a system , and the mind of ...
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... habit and discipline . Or in modern times , he is something between Franklin and Charles Fox , with the comfortable double- chin and sleek thriving look of the one , and the quiver- ing lip , the restless eye , and animated acuteness ...
... habit and discipline . Or in modern times , he is something between Franklin and Charles Fox , with the comfortable double- chin and sleek thriving look of the one , and the quiver- ing lip , the restless eye , and animated acuteness ...
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... habit , without the levers of the understanding , than the mechanist can discard the use of wheels and pulleys , and perform every thing by simple motion . If the mind . of man were competent to comprehend the whole of truth and good ...
... habit , without the levers of the understanding , than the mechanist can discard the use of wheels and pulleys , and perform every thing by simple motion . If the mind . of man were competent to comprehend the whole of truth and good ...
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... habit with him , and you request him to rouse himself and shake it off ; he is starving , and you warn him if he breaks the law , he will be hanged . None of this reasoning reaches the mark it aims at . The culprit , who violates and ...
... habit with him , and you request him to rouse himself and shake it off ; he is starving , and you warn him if he breaks the law , he will be hanged . None of this reasoning reaches the mark it aims at . The culprit , who violates and ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.