Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page xvii
... reason impassioned . The rush of the declamation is kept carefully within the channels of the argument ; they convince through the very process by which they kindle . Their style is that of splendid and animated conversation ; though ...
... reason impassioned . The rush of the declamation is kept carefully within the channels of the argument ; they convince through the very process by which they kindle . Their style is that of splendid and animated conversation ; though ...
Page xxxi
... reason for his dogmatism . He excelled all Englishmen of his time in his knowledge of English nistory . There was no drudgery he would not endure in order to obtain the most trivial fact which illustrated the opinions or the manners of ...
... reason for his dogmatism . He excelled all Englishmen of his time in his knowledge of English nistory . There was no drudgery he would not endure in order to obtain the most trivial fact which illustrated the opinions or the manners of ...
Page 53
... reason to think the gods vindictive as any man breath- ing . If you be not belied , a certain golden goblet which I have seen at your house was once in the tem- ple of Juno at Corcyra . And men say that there was a priestess at Tarentum ...
... reason to think the gods vindictive as any man breath- ing . If you be not belied , a certain golden goblet which I have seen at your house was once in the tem- ple of Juno at Corcyra . And men say that there was a priestess at Tarentum ...
Page 57
... reason . To be without any received canons of taste is good for the few who can create , but bad for the many who can only imitate and judge . Great and active minds cannot remain at rest . In a cultivated age they are too often ...
... reason . To be without any received canons of taste is good for the few who can create , but bad for the many who can only imitate and judge . Great and active minds cannot remain at rest . In a cultivated age they are too often ...
Page 97
... Reason personified , confutes him ; a task not very difficult , since the disciple de- fends his position only by pertinaciously repeating it , in almost the same words , at the end of every argu- ment of his antagonist . In this manner ...
... Reason personified , confutes him ; a task not very difficult , since the disciple de- fends his position only by pertinaciously repeating it , in almost the same words , at the end of every argu- ment of his antagonist . In this manner ...
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