Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page 11
... society rests to their very foundations . The minds of men were unsettled . It seemed for a time that all order and morality were about to perish with the prejudices with which they had been long and intimately associated . Frightful ...
... society rests to their very foundations . The minds of men were unsettled . It seemed for a time that all order and morality were about to perish with the prejudices with which they had been long and intimately associated . Frightful ...
Page 12
... society . No man asked whether another belonged to the same country with himself , but whether he be- longed to the same sect . Party - spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered ...
... society . No man asked whether another belonged to the same country with himself , but whether he be- longed to the same sect . Party - spirit seemed to justify and consecrate acts which , in any other times , would have been considered ...
Page 43
... society in a stable form was following a wild vision of glory and empire through the Syrian deserts . The time was not yet come , when " Confusion heard his voice ; and wild uproar Stood ruled : " when , out of the chaos into which the ...
... society in a stable form was following a wild vision of glory and empire through the Syrian deserts . The time was not yet come , when " Confusion heard his voice ; and wild uproar Stood ruled : " when , out of the chaos into which the ...
Page 47
... society in the world . But these ac- complished legislators , though quite as ignorant as the mob of Montreuil , proved much less docile , and cried out that they did not want to go to school to the Eng- lish . Their debates consisted ...
... society in the world . But these ac- complished legislators , though quite as ignorant as the mob of Montreuil , proved much less docile , and cried out that they did not want to go to school to the Eng- lish . Their debates consisted ...
Page 55
... society , would have been visited with the severest vengeance of the tri- umphant party , would have been pining in dungeons , or flying to foreign countries , still enjoying their possessions and their honours , still taking part as ...
... society , would have been visited with the severest vengeance of the tri- umphant party , would have been pining in dungeons , or flying to foreign countries , still enjoying their possessions and their honours , still taking part as ...
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