Works, Volumen 1Little, Brown, and Company, 1865 |
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Edmund Burke. foundations of society , rested upon having their rea- sons made clear and demonstrative to every indi- vidual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully handled as obviously it might ; it was not ...
Edmund Burke. foundations of society , rested upon having their rea- sons made clear and demonstrative to every indi- vidual ? The editor knows that the subject of this letter is not so fully handled as obviously it might ; it was not ...
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... clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that ...
... clearly and usefully exposed . We begin to think and to act from reason and from nature alone . This is true of several , but by far the majority is still in the same old state of blindness and slavery ; and much is it to be feared that ...
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... clearly their excellences must appear . They come purified from the fire . My busi- ness is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and ...
... clearly their excellences must appear . They come purified from the fire . My busi- ness is not with them . Having entered a protest against all objections from these quarters , I may the more freely inquire , from history and ...
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... clear , there were conquerors , and conquests in those days ; and , consequently , all that devastation by which they are formed , and all that oppression by which they are maintained . We know little of Sesostris , but that he led out ...
... clear , there were conquerors , and conquests in those days ; and , consequently , all that devastation by which they are formed , and all that oppression by which they are maintained . We know little of Sesostris , but that he led out ...
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... clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a necessary part of my subject , I should pass it by entirely . And this has hindered me from drawing at full length , and in the most striking col- ors , this shocking picture of the ...
... clear and acknowledged , that if it did not make a necessary part of my subject , I should pass it by entirely . And this has hindered me from drawing at full length , and in the most striking col- ors , this shocking picture of the ...
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Página 137 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Página 133 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Página 135 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 203 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 135 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 110 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 526 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Página 141 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Página 111 - But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors.
Página 155 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.