Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 - English essays |
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... tion . The men of our time are not to be converted or per- verted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the remarkable ...
... tion . The men of our time are not to be converted or per- verted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the remarkable ...
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... tion . His own brow has been marked by the purifying angel . The reader would throw aside such a tale in incredu- lous disgust , unless it were told with the strongest air of veracity , with a sobriety even in its horrors , with the ...
... tion . His own brow has been marked by the purifying angel . The reader would throw aside such a tale in incredu- lous disgust , unless it were told with the strongest air of veracity , with a sobriety even in its horrors , with the ...
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... tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes , which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God ...
... tion . Perhaps none of the secondary causes , which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God ...
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... tion one act of James II . , to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fingers on a single article in the Declaration of Right , pre- sented by the two Houses to William and Mary , which ...
... tion one act of James II . , to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fingers on a single article in the Declaration of Right , pre- sented by the two Houses to William and Mary , which ...
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... tion of Right . He had renounced the oppressive powers said to have been exercised by his predecessors , and he had renounced them for money . He was not entitled to set up his antiquated claims against his own recent release . These ...
... tion of Right . He had renounced the oppressive powers said to have been exercised by his predecessors , and he had renounced them for money . He was not entitled to set up his antiquated claims against his own recent release . These ...
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Page 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Page 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Page 455 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Page 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Page 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Page 373 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Page 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...