Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... who has studied lir- rary history , let every one who has studied human nature , declare . Envy and faction insinuate themselves into all com- munities . ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, June 1823 )
... who has studied lir- rary history , let every one who has studied human nature , declare . Envy and faction insinuate themselves into all com- munities . ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE (Knight's Quarterly Magazine, June 1823 )
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... nature , or to analyse their own minds , at a distance from the seat of political transac tions . In the little republic of which Dante was a member the state of things was very different . These small communities are most unmercifully ...
... nature , or to analyse their own minds , at a distance from the seat of political transac tions . In the little republic of which Dante was a member the state of things was very different . These small communities are most unmercifully ...
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... nature , and even of her personal existence , and seems to consider her as one of the attributes of the Deity . But those religious hopes which had released the mind of the sublime enthusiast from the terrors of death had not rendered ...
... nature , and even of her personal existence , and seems to consider her as one of the attributes of the Deity . But those religious hopes which had released the mind of the sublime enthusiast from the terrors of death had not rendered ...
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... Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , unutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feigned , or fear conceived , Gorgons , and hydras , and chimæras dire , " - had he But this would doubtless have ...
... Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , unutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feigned , or fear conceived , Gorgons , and hydras , and chimæras dire , " - had he But this would doubtless have ...
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... nature , excite our feelings very feebly . It is when the great gulf which separates them from us is passed , when we suspect some strange and undefinable relation be- tween the laws of the visible and the invisible world , that they ...
... nature , excite our feelings very feebly . It is when the great gulf which separates them from us is passed , when we suspect some strange and undefinable relation be- tween the laws of the visible and the invisible world , that they ...
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