Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 6
... 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 science gains and poetry loses ...
... 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 science gains and poetry loses ...
Page 8
... Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici- pate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind 8 MILTON .
... Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici- pate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind 8 MILTON .
Page 69
... civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea . Italian factories rose on every shore . The tables of Italian money - changers were set in every city . Manufactures flour- ished . Banks were established . The operations of ...
... civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea . Italian factories rose on every shore . The tables of Italian money - changers were set in every city . Manufactures flour- ished . Banks were established . The operations of ...
Page 134
... civilised world . Whatever of political freedom exists either in Europe or in America , has sprung , directly or indirectly , from those institutions which they secured and reformed . We never turn to the annals of those times with- out ...
... civilised world . Whatever of political freedom exists either in Europe or in America , has sprung , directly or indirectly , from those institutions which they secured and reformed . We never turn to the annals of those times with- out ...
Page 135
... civilised nations , the most arbitrary governments have generally suffered justice to have a free course in private suits . Strafford wished to make every cause in every court subject to the royal prerogative . He complained that in Ire ...
... civilised nations , the most arbitrary governments have generally suffered justice to have a free course in private suits . Strafford wished to make every cause in every court subject to the royal prerogative . He complained that in Ire ...
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