Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 7
... in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials.
... in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials.
Page 41
... facts , and content themselves with calling testi- mony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
... facts , and content themselves with calling testi- mony to character . He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
Page 57
... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
... fact the necessary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
Page 108
... fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support any government which might preserve her independence . The interval which separated a democracy and a despotism ...
... fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support any government which might preserve her independence . The interval which separated a democracy and a despotism ...
Page 117
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
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