Essays: Political, Historical, and MiscellaneousW. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... principles . Sir Walter Scott and Chateaubriand are beyond all question , and by the consent of both nations , at the head of the literature of France and England since the Revolution ; and they will both leave names at which the latest ...
... principles . Sir Walter Scott and Chateaubriand are beyond all question , and by the consent of both nations , at the head of the literature of France and England since the Revolution ; and they will both leave names at which the latest ...
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... principles of religion . The days of Pascal and Fenelon , of Saurin and Bourdaloue , of Bossuet and Massillon , had passed away ; the splendid talent of the seventeenth century was no longer arrayed in the support of virtue ; the ...
... principles of religion . The days of Pascal and Fenelon , of Saurin and Bourdaloue , of Bossuet and Massillon , had passed away ; the splendid talent of the seventeenth century was no longer arrayed in the support of virtue ; the ...
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... principles of virtue and natural religion are unceasingly maintained , he seems to have doubted whether the Christian religion was not crumbling with the institutions of society , and speculated what faith was to be established on its ...
... principles of virtue and natural religion are unceasingly maintained , he seems to have doubted whether the Christian religion was not crumbling with the institutions of society , and speculated what faith was to be established on its ...
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... principles , this great author availed himself of every engine which fancy , expe- rience , or poetry could suggest , to sway the hearts of his readers . He knew well that he was addressing an impas- sioned and volatile generation ...
... principles , this great author availed himself of every engine which fancy , expe- rience , or poetry could suggest , to sway the hearts of his readers . He knew well that he was addressing an impas- sioned and volatile generation ...
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... principles are substantially the same , and the objects of all identical . So small a proportion do all the disputed points in theology bear to the great objects of religion - love to God , charity to man , and the subjugation of human ...
... principles are substantially the same , and the objects of all identical . So small a proportion do all the disputed points in theology bear to the great objects of religion - love to God , charity to man , and the subjugation of human ...
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