Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re ...
... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are convinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re ...
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... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
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... moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by ...
... moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by ...
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... moral world . Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasant- ness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
... moral world . Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasant- ness of external objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
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... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be ...
... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be ...
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