Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly is indispensable to ...
... effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly is indispensable to ...
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... effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves cannot speak , that ...
... effect of reality . No man , whatever his sensibility may be , is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear , as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Riding - hood . She knows that it is all false , that wolves cannot speak , that ...
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... effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions , as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite , and the shades of probability more and more distinct , the hues ...
... effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions , as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite , and the shades of probability more and more distinct , the hues ...
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... effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through con- ductors . The ...
... effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through con- ductors . The ...
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... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the door ...
... effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying , " Open Wheat , " " Open Barley , " to the door ...
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