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... presents a striking illustration of the difference between the philosophical and the regal look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie about his whole aspect , none of ...
... presents a striking illustration of the difference between the philosophical and the regal look ; that is , between the merely abstracted and the merely personal . There is a lack - adaisical bon- hommie about his whole aspect , none of ...
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... still sends to Westminster to make up a sham popular assembly . Brougham alluded to Bentham when he acknow- ledged that he had sat at the feet of Gamaliel . - ED . of intellectual inquiry to the present period , and dis- Jeremy Bentham . 7.
... still sends to Westminster to make up a sham popular assembly . Brougham alluded to Bentham when he acknow- ledged that he had sat at the feet of Gamaliel . - ED . of intellectual inquiry to the present period , and dis- Jeremy Bentham . 7.
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Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. of intellectual inquiry to the present period , and dis- posing the results in a compendious , connected , and tangible shape ; but books of reference are chiefly ser ...
Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. of intellectual inquiry to the present period , and dis- posing the results in a compendious , connected , and tangible shape ; but books of reference are chiefly ser ...
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... present itself under a certain aspect and from a certain point of view , in order to produce its full and proper effect upon the mind . The laws of the affections are as necessary as those of optics . A calcu- lation of consequences is ...
... present itself under a certain aspect and from a certain point of view , in order to produce its full and proper effect upon the mind . The laws of the affections are as necessary as those of optics . A calcu- lation of consequences is ...
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... present question is whether we can , with safety and effect , be wholly emancipated from them ? Whether we should shake them off at pleasure and without mercy , as the only bar to the triumph of truth and justice ? Or whether ...
... present question is whether we can , with safety and effect , be wholly emancipated from them ? Whether we should shake them off at pleasure and without mercy , as the only bar to the triumph of truth and justice ? Or whether ...
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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.