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... object to object , but from thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He meditates the coming age . He hears ...
... object to object , but from thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He meditates the coming age . He hears ...
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... object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for appre- hending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that which approves itself as such on reflection , or the idea of which is a source of ...
... object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for appre- hending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that which approves itself as such on reflection , or the idea of which is a source of ...
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... object of language altogether . Mr. Bentham has acquired this disability : it is not natural to him . His admirable little work On Usury , published forty years ago , is clear , easy and vigorous . But Mr. Bentham has shut himself up ...
... object of language altogether . Mr. Bentham has acquired this disability : it is not natural to him . His admirable little work On Usury , published forty years ago , is clear , easy and vigorous . But Mr. Bentham has shut himself up ...
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... object is at stake , the lesser and merely instrumental points of duty are to be sacrificed without remorse at the shrine of patriotism , of honour , and of conscience . But the disciple of the New School ( no wonder it found so many ...
... object is at stake , the lesser and merely instrumental points of duty are to be sacrificed without remorse at the shrine of patriotism , of honour , and of conscience . But the disciple of the New School ( no wonder it found so many ...
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... was answered by Foster , Leland , and other eminent divines , on the ground that Christianity had a higher object in view , namely , general philanthropy . can do most good . " In determining this point 28 The Spirit of the Age .
... was answered by Foster , Leland , and other eminent divines , on the ground that Christianity had a higher object in view , namely , general philanthropy . can do most good . " In determining this point 28 The Spirit of the Age .
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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.