Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , until they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some ...
... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , until they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some ...
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... 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 , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal ...
... 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 , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal ...
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... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily ...
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily ...
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... interest- ing . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the ...
... interest- ing . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the ...
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... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in gene- ́ral terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being , for whose power nothing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in gene- ́ral terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being , for whose power nothing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
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