Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... society in which it was destined to appear. For half a century before it appeared, the whole genius of France had been incessantly directed to undermine the principles of religion. The days of Pascal and Fenelon, of Saurin and ...
... society in which it was destined to appear. For half a century before it appeared, the whole genius of France had been incessantly directed to undermine the principles of religion. The days of Pascal and Fenelon, of Saurin and ...
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... society , and speculated what faith was to be established on its ruins . But misfortune , that great corrector of the vices of the world , soon changed these faulty views . In the days of exile and adversity , when by the waters of ...
... society , and speculated what faith was to be established on its ruins . But misfortune , that great corrector of the vices of the world , soon changed these faulty views . In the days of exile and adversity , when by the waters of ...
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... society ; from the changes it had wrought upon the civilisation , the happiness , and destinies of mankind ; from its analogy with the sublimest tenets of natural religion ; from its unceasing pro- gress , its indefinite extension , and ...
... society ; from the changes it had wrought upon the civilisation , the happiness , and destinies of mankind ; from its analogy with the sublimest tenets of natural religion ; from its unceasing pro- gress , its indefinite extension , and ...
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... society ; and it is then , accordingly , that those creative minds appear which stamp their own impress upon the character of a whole people , and communicate to their litera- ture , in the most distant periods , a certain train of ...
... society ; and it is then , accordingly , that those creative minds appear which stamp their own impress upon the character of a whole people , and communicate to their litera- ture , in the most distant periods , a certain train of ...
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... society . We hear of princes , kings , and the daughters of kings , and our imagination immediately clothes them with the pomp and circumstance of modern royalty . But ere long some little circumstance , let out as it were accidentally ...
... society . We hear of princes , kings , and the daughters of kings , and our imagination immediately clothes them with the pomp and circumstance of modern royalty . But ere long some little circumstance , let out as it were accidentally ...
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Sivu 350 - Nearer to the beach, the tide rippled onward in waves of sparkling silver, that imperceptibly, yet rapidly, gained upon the sand. With a mind employed in admiration of the romantic scene, or perhaps on some more agitating topic, Miss Wardour advanced in silence by her father's side, whose recently offended dignity did not stoop to open any conversation. Following the windings of the beach, they passed one projecting point or headland of rock after another, and now found themselves under a huge and...