Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... ideas flow in quicker succession , his words follow in more striking antithesis ; the past , the present , and the future rise up at once before us ; and we see how strongly the stream of genius , instead of gliding down the smooth ...
... ideas flow in quicker succession , his words follow in more striking antithesis ; the past , the present , and the future rise up at once before us ; and we see how strongly the stream of genius , instead of gliding down the smooth ...
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... ideas of men were set adrift by revolutionary changes , when the authority of ages was set at naught , and from centuries of experience appeals were made to weeks of inno- vation , it was in vain to refer to the great or the wise of ...
... ideas of men were set adrift by revolutionary changes , when the authority of ages was set at naught , and from centuries of experience appeals were made to weeks of inno- vation , it was in vain to refer to the great or the wise of ...
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... ideas of religion and society , and recalls the pristine equality of the human race ; in fine , it per- petuates the ... idea which , the more we extend our reading , the more we shall find to be just — viz . , that in the greater and ...
... ideas of religion and society , and recalls the pristine equality of the human race ; in fine , it per- petuates the ... idea which , the more we extend our reading , the more we shall find to be just — viz . , that in the greater and ...
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... idea which we entertain of death ? Do a few grains of dust merit so much consideration ? No ; without doubt we respect the bones of our fathers , because an inward voice tells us that all is not lost with them ; and that is the voice ...
... idea which we entertain of death ? Do a few grains of dust merit so much consideration ? No ; without doubt we respect the bones of our fathers , because an inward voice tells us that all is not lost with them ; and that is the voice ...
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... idea of modern Greece . " On the eve of leaving Greece , at the Cape of Sunium , I did not abandon myself alone to the romantic ideas which the beauty of the scene was fitted to inspire . I retraced in my mind the history of that ...
... idea of modern Greece . " On the eve of leaving Greece , at the Cape of Sunium , I did not abandon myself alone to the romantic ideas which the beauty of the scene was fitted to inspire . I retraced in my mind the history of that ...
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