Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
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... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to por- tray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to por- tray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
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... human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could ...
... human actions , it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one . It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees . But could ...
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... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
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... human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the ...
... human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the ...
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