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... sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is him ...
... sense , whim , with his petrific , leaden mace , that he had " bound volatile Hermes , " and reduced the theory and practice of human life to a caput mortuum of reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is him ...
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... sense or of con- science , whether it arise from the exercise of virtue or the perpetration of crime . We are afraid the human mind does not readily come into this doctrine , this ultima ratio philosophorum , interpreted according to ...
... sense or of con- science , whether it arise from the exercise of virtue or the perpetration of crime . We are afraid the human mind does not readily come into this doctrine , this ultima ratio philosophorum , interpreted according to ...
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... sense , spirit , and style with the dust and cobwebs of an obscure solitude . The best of it is , he thinks his present mode of express- ing himself perfect , and that whatever may be objected to his law or logic , no one can find the ...
... sense , spirit , and style with the dust and cobwebs of an obscure solitude . The best of it is , he thinks his present mode of express- ing himself perfect , and that whatever may be objected to his law or logic , no one can find the ...
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... sense ! Let us pause here a little . Mr. Godwin indulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless 1 First printed in 1793 . 2 First printed in 1794 . Because understandings of the time . What then ...
... sense ! Let us pause here a little . Mr. Godwin indulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless 1 First printed in 1793 . 2 First printed in 1794 . Because understandings of the time . What then ...
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... sense , custom , authority , private and local attachment , in order that he may devote himself to the boundless pursuit of universal benevolence . Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weak- nesses of our nature , nor does he ...
... sense , custom , authority , private and local attachment , in order that he may devote himself to the boundless pursuit of universal benevolence . Mr. Godwin gives no quarter to the amiable weak- nesses of our nature , nor does he ...
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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.