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... less mistaken than before . Doubtless , however , there is in this increased attention a progress towards the truth ; which it is only investigation and discussion that can help us to find . The study of German literature has already ...
... less mistaken than before . Doubtless , however , there is in this increased attention a progress towards the truth ; which it is only investigation and discussion that can help us to find . The study of German literature has already ...
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... less acquaintance with the subject of German taste , or of taste in general , the spirit of the accusation seems to be somewhat as follows : That the Germans , with much natural susceptibility , are still in a rather coarse and ...
... less acquaintance with the subject of German taste , or of taste in general , the spirit of the accusation seems to be somewhat as follows : That the Germans , with much natural susceptibility , are still in a rather coarse and ...
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... less meritorious . His Criticism and philosophic or religious Scepticism were of a higher mood than had yet been heard in Europe , still more in Germany : his " Dramaturgie " first exploded the pretensions of the French theatre , and ...
... less meritorious . His Criticism and philosophic or religious Scepticism were of a higher mood than had yet been heard in Europe , still more in Germany : his " Dramaturgie " first exploded the pretensions of the French theatre , and ...
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... less perfectly with the other intellectual persuasions of his own mind , and of different classes of minds that resemble his . Nor can we here undertake to inquire what degree of such approximation to the truth there is in each or all ...
... less perfectly with the other intellectual persuasions of his own mind , and of different classes of minds that resemble his . Nor can we here undertake to inquire what degree of such approximation to the truth there is in each or all ...
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... less attraction than the former : yet their truth excites us ; we admire the great effect of the whole , pro- duced at so little cost , by a few expressive strokes , and masses of local colours . " With no less accuracy of character can ...
... less attraction than the former : yet their truth excites us ; we admire the great effect of the whole , pro- duced at so little cost , by a few expressive strokes , and masses of local colours . " With no less accuracy of character can ...
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Page 414 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 91 - Were. we required to characterize this age of ours by any single' epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in' every outward and inward sense of that word...
Page 104 - ... the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. Yet such is the fact.
Page 17 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century ; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
Page 101 - The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of its Newspapers. These preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war, with an authority which only the first Reformers and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moral censure ; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification ; in all ways, diligently ." administering the Discipline tsf the Church.
Page 113 - ... and all because the dwellings of cotton-spinners are naked and rectangular. Mr. Southey has found out a way, he tells us, in which the effects of manufactures and agriculture may be compared. And what is this way? To stand on a hill, to look at a cottage and a factory, and to see which is the prettier.
Page 314 - ... an infinite whole, for this could only be done by the infinite synthesis in thought of finite wholes, which would itself require an infinite time for its accomplishment ; nor, for the same reason, can we follow out in thought an infinite divisibility of parts. The result is the same, whether we apply the process to limitation in space, in time, or in degree. The unconditional negation, and the unconditional aflirmation of limitation ; in other words, the infinite and absolute, properly so called,...
Page 386 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Page 14 - Wherein lies that life; how have they attained that shape and individuality? Whence comes that empyrean fire which irradiates their whole being, and pierces, at least in starry gleams, like a diviner thing, into all hearts?
Page 361 - But these lead you to believe that the very perception or sensible image is the external object. Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.