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... evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers , with just sufficient ...
... evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers , with just sufficient ...
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... evil . ” To the blessings which England has derived from the Revo- lution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights , liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing ...
... evil . ” To the blessings which England has derived from the Revo- lution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights , liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing ...
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... evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling ...
... evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling ...
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... Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that , before the publication of his fatal Prince , there had never been a hypo- crite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or ...
... Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that , before the publication of his fatal Prince , there had never been a hypo- crite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or ...
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... evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a consti- tutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost ...
... evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a consti- tutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost ...
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Página 468 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 39 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Página 159 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 538 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought...
Página 6 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 91 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
Página 386 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 418 - ... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great...