Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of ...
... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the necessity of ...
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... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most in- significant name , than for the most important principle . > From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should ...
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most in- significant name , than for the most important principle . > From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should ...
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... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the ...
... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very crisis of the ...
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... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and romantic honour , the prejudices of childhood , and the vene- rable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
... strong within them . They were indeed mis- led , but by no base or selfish motive . Compassion and romantic honour , the prejudices of childhood , and the vene- rable names of history , threw over them a spell potent as that of Duessa ...
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... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm backward , to break the ties which bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm backward , to break the ties which bound a stupefied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
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