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... 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 observe how , in the same way , the writer speaks in the ...
... 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 observe how , in the same way , the writer speaks in the ...
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... politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the moment ...
... politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of sound mind , was of opinion that Sir Samuel Romilly was the most proper person to represent Westminster ; but this was the whim of the moment ...
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... political rea- soning : —his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and literally ; that he has brought all the objections and arguments , more distinctly labelled and ticketed , under this one head , and made a more ...
... political rea- soning : —his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and literally ; that he has brought all the objections and arguments , more distinctly labelled and ticketed , under this one head , and made a more ...
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... Political Justice1 and of Caleb Williams ' can never die ; his name is an abstraction in letters ; his works are standard in the history of intellect . He is thought of now like any eminent writer of a hundred - and - fifty years ago ...
... Political Justice1 and of Caleb Williams ' can never die ; his name is an abstraction in letters ; his works are standard in the history of intellect . He is thought of now like any eminent writer of a hundred - and - fifty years ago ...
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... Political Justice took abstract reason for the rule of con- duct and abstract good for its end . He places the human mind on an elevation , from which it commands 绘• a view of the whole line of moral 26 The Spirit of the Age . MR ...
... Political Justice took abstract reason for the rule of con- duct and abstract good for its end . He places the human mind on an elevation , from which it commands 绘• a view of the whole line of moral 26 The Spirit of the Age . MR ...
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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.