Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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Sivu 4
... admirable works , from the North Cape to Cape Horn , feels that what the characters they contain are made to say , is just what would have occurred to them- selves , or what they have heard said by others as long as they lived . Nor is ...
... admirable works , from the North Cape to Cape Horn , feels that what the characters they contain are made to say , is just what would have occurred to them- selves , or what they have heard said by others as long as they lived . Nor is ...
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... admirable invention , a bridle to crime , discovered in the most remote antiquity , for confession was recognised in the celebration of all the ancient mysteries . We have adopted and sanctified that wise cus- tom , and its effects have ...
... admirable invention , a bridle to crime , discovered in the most remote antiquity , for confession was recognised in the celebration of all the ancient mysteries . We have adopted and sanctified that wise cus- tom , and its effects have ...
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... admirable balance was established between the forces and the weaknesses of existence . Religion directed its thunders against pride , the vice which is nourished by the virtues ; it discovers it in the inmost recesses of the heart , and ...
... admirable balance was established between the forces and the weaknesses of existence . Religion directed its thunders against pride , the vice which is nourished by the virtues ; it discovers it in the inmost recesses of the heart , and ...
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... admirable wisdom of Providence is nowhere more conspicuous than in the nests of birds . It is impossible to contemplate , without emotion , the Divine goodness , which thus gives industry to the weak and foresight to the thoughtless ...
... admirable wisdom of Providence is nowhere more conspicuous than in the nests of birds . It is impossible to contemplate , without emotion , the Divine goodness , which thus gives industry to the weak and foresight to the thoughtless ...
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... admiration ; but every earthly admiration is mingled with weakness , either in the object it admires or in that admiring . Imagine , then , a perfect being , which perceives at once all that is , and has , and will be ; suppose that ...
... admiration ; but every earthly admiration is mingled with weakness , either in the object it admires or in that admiring . Imagine , then , a perfect being , which perceives at once all that is , and has , and will be ; suppose that ...
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