Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... Philosophy , which , when they first appeared , attracted some notice , but which are not in the American editions . He has how- ever determined to omit these papers , not because he is disposed to retract a single doctrine which they ...
... Philosophy , which , when they first appeared , attracted some notice , but which are not in the American editions . He has how- ever determined to omit these papers , not because he is disposed to retract a single doctrine which they ...
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... philosophical , that of a half- civilised people is poetical . This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which ...
... philosophical , that of a half- civilised people is poetical . This change in the language of men is partly the cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which ...
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... philosophy , abundance of just classification and subtle analysis , abundance of wit and eloquence , abundance of verses , and even of good ones ; but little poetry . Men will judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will ...
... philosophy , abundance of just classification and subtle analysis , abundance of wit and eloquence , abundance of verses , and even of good ones ; but little poetry . Men will judge and compare ; but they will not create . They will ...
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... philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity em- bodied in a human form , walking among men , par- taking of their ...
... philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity em- bodied in a human form , walking among men , par- taking of their ...
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... of things was dif- ferent . It was not then fully understood how vast an interval separates the mere classical scholar from the political philosopher . Nor can it be doubted that a treatise which , bearing the name of so 44 MILTON .
... of things was dif- ferent . It was not then fully understood how vast an interval separates the mere classical scholar from the political philosopher . Nor can it be doubted that a treatise which , bearing the name of so 44 MILTON .
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