Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... light and shadow , a vigour of thought , and an extent of illustration , to which there is nothing comparable in any other writer , ancient or modern , with whom we are acquainted . All that he has seen , or read , or heard , seems ...
... light and shadow , a vigour of thought , and an extent of illustration , to which there is nothing comparable in any other writer , ancient or modern , with whom we are acquainted . All that he has seen , or read , or heard , seems ...
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... light . The writers whom party has elevated , the genius which vice has seduced , are destined to decline with the interests to which they were devoted , or the passions by which they were misled . The rise of new political struggles ...
... light . The writers whom party has elevated , the genius which vice has seduced , are destined to decline with the interests to which they were devoted , or the passions by which they were misled . The rise of new political struggles ...
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... light . He dies ; and so sweet has been his departure , that no one has heard his last sigh ; and his friends , long after he is no more , preserve silence round his couch , still thinking that he slept : so like the sleep of infancy is ...
... light . He dies ; and so sweet has been his departure , that no one has heard his last sigh ; and his friends , long after he is no more , preserve silence round his couch , still thinking that he slept : so like the sleep of infancy is ...
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... light by a word ? In an instant , the sun is seen suspended in the heavens , in the midst of an immense azure vault ; with invisible bonds he envelops the planets , and whirls them round his burning axle ; the sea and the forests appear ...
... light by a word ? In an instant , the sun is seen suspended in the heavens , in the midst of an immense azure vault ; with invisible bonds he envelops the planets , and whirls them round his burning axle ; the sea and the forests appear ...
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... light in one single substance . The bright splendour is perhaps that which nature can present that is most beautiful ; for while it gives us an idea of the perpetual magnificence and resistless power of God , it exhibits , at the same ...
... light in one single substance . The bright splendour is perhaps that which nature can present that is most beautiful ; for while it gives us an idea of the perpetual magnificence and resistless power of God , it exhibits , at the same ...
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