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... manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY — or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye , to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton ...
... manner , intent only on his grand theme of UTILITY — or pausing , perhaps , for want of breath and with lack - lustre eye , to point out to the stranger a stone in the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton ...
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... manner ; but we should find a difficulty in adducing from his different works ( however elaborate or closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able ...
... manner ; but we should find a difficulty in adducing from his different works ( however elaborate or closely reasoned ) any new element of thought , or even a new fact or illustration . His writings are , therefore , chiefly valu- able ...
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... manner , which renders his writings of more value to the pro- fessional inquirer than to the general reader . Again , his style is unpopular , not to say unintelligible . He writes a language of his own that darkens knowledge . His ...
... manner , which renders his writings of more value to the pro- fessional inquirer than to the general reader . Again , his style is unpopular , not to say unintelligible . He writes a language of his own that darkens knowledge . His ...
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... manner . He has no great fondness for poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind ...
... manner . He has no great fondness for poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind ...
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... manners , by creating common interests and ideas . Or , in the words of a con- temporary writer , " Reason is the queen of the moral world , the soul of the universe , the lamp of human life , the pillar of society , the foundation of ...
... manners , by creating common interests and ideas . Or , in the words of a con- temporary writer , " Reason is the queen of the moral world , the soul of the universe , the lamp of human life , the pillar of society , the foundation of ...
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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.