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... . Bentham would carry it hollow , on the score of popularity , at Paris or Pegu . The reason is , that our author's influ- ence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to.
... . Bentham would carry it hollow , on the score of popularity , at Paris or Pegu . The reason is , that our author's influ- ence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to.
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... truths , and to those studies- " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole ” and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of ...
... truths , and to those studies- " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole ” and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand- bill to say that he ( Jeremy Bentham ) being of ...
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... Truth and Heaven for near half a century into a paltry Chrestomathic School , and to make Milton's house ( the cradle of Paradise Lost ) a thoroughfare , like a three- stalled stable , for the idle rabble of Westminster to pass ...
... Truth and Heaven for near half a century into a paltry Chrestomathic School , and to make Milton's house ( the cradle of Paradise Lost ) a thoroughfare , like a three- stalled stable , for the idle rabble of Westminster to pass ...
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... truth , from which a number of others might be deduced , nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into wine . One truth discovered is immortal , and entitles ...
... truth , from which a number of others might be deduced , nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into wine . One truth discovered is immortal , and entitles ...
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... truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the universe . By aiming ... truth and good , and act upon it at once , and inde- pendently of all other considerations , Mr. Bentham's plan would ...
... truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the universe . By aiming ... truth and good , and act upon it at once , and inde- pendently of all other considerations , Mr. Bentham's plan would ...
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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.