Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 5
... Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of ...
... Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of ...
Page 25
... surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be con- ceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and MILTON .
... surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be con- ceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and MILTON .
Page 86
... surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Milla- mant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses of Absolute and Surface might have been clipped ...
... surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Milla- mant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses of Absolute and Surface might have been clipped ...
Page 125
... surely a man who liked the fire so little should have had some sympathy for others . A persecutor who inflicts nothing which he is not ready to endure deserves some respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of ...
... surely a man who liked the fire so little should have had some sympathy for others . A persecutor who inflicts nothing which he is not ready to endure deserves some respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of ...
Page 138
... surely very ir- rational . The rules of evidence no more depend on the magnitude of the interests at stake than the rules of arith- metic . We might as well say that we have a greater chance of throwing a size when we are playing for a ...
... surely very ir- rational . The rules of evidence no more depend on the magnitude of the interests at stake than the rules of arith- metic . We might as well say that we have a greater chance of throwing a size when we are playing for a ...
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