Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... 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 present to his mind , whatever he ...
... 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 present to his mind , whatever he ...
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... thought also have a certain connexion with the mysterious . To what sciences do we unceasingly return ? To those which always leave something still to be discovered , and fix our regards on a perspective which is never to terminate . If ...
... thought also have a certain connexion with the mysterious . To what sciences do we unceasingly return ? To those which always leave something still to be discovered , and fix our regards on a perspective which is never to terminate . If ...
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... thought otherwise when he wrote the sublime lines on visiting the Grande Chartreuse ; Buchanan thought otherwise , when , in his exquisite Ode to May , he supposed the first zephyrs of spring to blow over the Islands of the Just . The ...
... thought otherwise when he wrote the sublime lines on visiting the Grande Chartreuse ; Buchanan thought otherwise , when , in his exquisite Ode to May , he supposed the first zephyrs of spring to blow over the Islands of the Just . The ...
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... thought upon the subject , classes the obvious disproportion between the desires and capacity of the soul , and the limits of its acquisitions and enjoyments in this world . In the following passage , this argument is placed in its just ...
... thought upon the subject , classes the obvious disproportion between the desires and capacity of the soul , and the limits of its acquisitions and enjoyments in this world . In the following passage , this argument is placed in its just ...
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... thought and power to this degenerate age ; it is impossible , in visiting them , to avoid the feeling that you are beholding the work of giants . It is to this cause , we are persuaded , that the extraordinary impression produced by the ...
... thought and power to this degenerate age ; it is impossible , in visiting them , to avoid the feeling that you are beholding the work of giants . It is to this cause , we are persuaded , that the extraordinary impression produced by the ...
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