Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Nide 1Carey & Hart, 1843 |
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... reason to believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been their aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been ...
... reason to believe , that a collected edition of them would be received with favour by the American public . It has been their aim to pre- sent them in a form worthy of the high merit of their contents . Mr. Macaulay has not been ...
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... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining them . Even when ...
... reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imita- tive arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining them . Even when ...
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... reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The ...
... reason about abstractions ; but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The ...
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... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the hu- man race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single generation , for no single land . The destinies of the hu- man race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
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... reason , which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to ...
... reason , which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 , may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the great rebellion . In one respect only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to ...
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Sivu 385 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rush'd, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Sivu 385 - Coligni's hoary hair all dabbled with his blood; And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Sivu 58 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Sivu 332 - We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Sivu 41 - The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forests, which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thousand years, and which, from one end of Europe to the other, have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees of the oppressors with an unwonted fear.
Sivu 47 - ... is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning...
Sivu 386 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Sivu 385 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Sivu 384 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Sivu 36 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.