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... 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 Jeremy Bentham . 5.
... 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 Jeremy Bentham . 5.
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... looks out for facts and passing occurrences in order to put them into his logical machinery and grind them into the dust ... look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie ...
... looks out for facts and passing occurrences in order to put them into his logical machinery and grind them into the dust ... look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie ...
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... look upon as the gulf that parts time from eternity , and that is to waft them to the spirits of their fathers ? After all this , Mr. Hunter must find Mr. Owen and his paral- lelograms trite and flat , and will , we suspect , take an ...
... look upon as the gulf that parts time from eternity , and that is to waft them to the spirits of their fathers ? After all this , Mr. Hunter must find Mr. Owen and his paral- lelograms trite and flat , and will , we suspect , take an ...
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... look of patch - work and plagiarism , the beggarly copiousness of borrowed wealth ; no tracery- work from worm - eaten manuscripts , from forgotten chronicles , nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and snatches of old ...
... look of patch - work and plagiarism , the beggarly copiousness of borrowed wealth ; no tracery- work from worm - eaten manuscripts , from forgotten chronicles , nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and snatches of old ...
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... looks up with unfeigned respect to acknowledged reputation ( but then it must be very well ascertained before he admits it ) —and has a favourite hypothesis that Understanding and Virtue are the same thing . Mr. Godwin possesses a high ...
... looks up with unfeigned respect to acknowledged reputation ( but then it must be very well ascertained before he admits it ) —and has a favourite hypothesis that Understanding and Virtue are the same thing . Mr. Godwin possesses a high ...
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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.