Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... passions , or pander to the ambition of the populace , he has done more than any man alive to elevate their character , to fill their minds with the noble sentiments which dignify alike the cottage and the palace , to exhibit the ...
... passions , or pander to the ambition of the populace , he has done more than any man alive to elevate their character , to fill their minds with the noble sentiments which dignify alike the cottage and the palace , to exhibit the ...
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... passions by which they were misled . The rise of new political struggles will consign to oblivion the vast talent which was engulfed in the contention ; the acces- sion of a more virtuous age buries in the dust the fancy which was ...
... passions by which they were misled . The rise of new political struggles will consign to oblivion the vast talent which was engulfed in the contention ; the acces- sion of a more virtuous age buries in the dust the fancy which was ...
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... passions , and the most volup- tuous seductions to the senses . This inundation of infidelity was soon followed by sterner days ; to the unrestrained indulgence of passion succeeded the unfettered march of crime . With the destruction ...
... passions , and the most volup- tuous seductions to the senses . This inundation of infidelity was soon followed by sterner days ; to the unrestrained indulgence of passion succeeded the unfettered march of crime . With the destruction ...
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... passions and indulgences of life were to com- mence . It was in these disastrous days that Chateaubriand arose , and bent the force of his lofty mind to restore the fallen but imperishable faith of his fathers . In early youth , he was ...
... passions and indulgences of life were to com- mence . It was in these disastrous days that Chateaubriand arose , and bent the force of his lofty mind to restore the fallen but imperishable faith of his fathers . In early youth , he was ...
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... passions of man ; to show how it has modified the genius of arts and of letters , moulded the spirit of modern nations ; in a word , to unfold all the marvels which religion has wrought in the regions of poetry , morality , politics ...
... passions of man ; to show how it has modified the genius of arts and of letters , moulded the spirit of modern nations ; in a word , to unfold all the marvels which religion has wrought in the regions of poetry , morality , politics ...
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