Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1836 |
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... truth . Whoever dares to question it , unawed by the authority on the one hand , and undazzled by the novelty on the other , is considered as a person of a narrow and bigoted understanding , and as relinquishing all claim to the ...
... truth . Whoever dares to question it , unawed by the authority on the one hand , and undazzled by the novelty on the other , is considered as a person of a narrow and bigoted understanding , and as relinquishing all claim to the ...
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... truth , " proceeds this author , " is the natural goodness , or moral sense , so much extolled by the English ? What distinct idea can we form of such a sense , or on what evidence found its existence ? If we allow a moral sense , why ...
... truth , " proceeds this author , " is the natural goodness , or moral sense , so much extolled by the English ? What distinct idea can we form of such a sense , or on what evidence found its existence ? If we allow a moral sense , why ...
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... truth , and of the real consequences of its actions , we should uniformly listen to the distresses of others with the same sort of feeling as we go to see a tragedy , only because we calculate that the pleasure is greater than the pain ...
... truth , and of the real consequences of its actions , we should uniformly listen to the distresses of others with the same sort of feeling as we go to see a tragedy , only because we calculate that the pleasure is greater than the pain ...
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... truth of this paradox , great as it seems , may be brought to a very fair test : namely , the being able to demon- strate that the doctrine of self - interest , as it is commonly understood , is in the nature of things an absolute ...
... truth of this paradox , great as it seems , may be brought to a very fair test : namely , the being able to demon- strate that the doctrine of self - interest , as it is commonly understood , is in the nature of things an absolute ...
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... truth , but how we come to confound a number of things together , and con- sider many things as the same , which cannot be strictly true . This idea must then merely relate to such a connexion between a number of things as determines ...
... truth , but how we come to confound a number of things together , and con- sider many things as the same , which cannot be strictly true . This idea must then merely relate to such a connexion between a number of things as determines ...
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Page 404 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 214 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 403 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : 5 But, when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 451 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Page 342 - Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde...
Page 270 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Page 85 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!
Page 384 - Coleridge's cottage. I think I see him now. He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like. He was quaintly dressed (according to the costume of that unconstrained period) in a brown fustian jacket and striped pantaloons. There was something of a roll, a lounge in his gait, not unlike his own
Page 277 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 463 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.