Romantic Prose of the Early Nineteenth CenturyCarl Henry Grabo |
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... reason and subjected to the tests of expe- rience . He declared that conduct which makes for the well - being of the greater number is moral ; that which diminishes this well - being is immoral . What if the indi- vidual's personal ...
... reason and subjected to the tests of expe- rience . He declared that conduct which makes for the well - being of the greater number is moral ; that which diminishes this well - being is immoral . What if the indi- vidual's personal ...
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... reason freed from traditional bonds . Church and State recognized the Encyclopedia as an insidious enemy , but despite the difficulties placed in the path of its publication it was completed , printed , and widely read . Its influence ...
... reason freed from traditional bonds . Church and State recognized the Encyclopedia as an insidious enemy , but despite the difficulties placed in the path of its publication it was completed , printed , and widely read . Its influence ...
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... reason . Nor is it logically intelligible how , in a deterministic universe , men may mold their destinies to ends of their own devising . The theory of free will is denied , but its substance retained . In truth the French ...
... reason . Nor is it logically intelligible how , in a deterministic universe , men may mold their destinies to ends of their own devising . The theory of free will is denied , but its substance retained . In truth the French ...
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... reason of the acci- dents of circumstance and a different genius in the English people , takes a more practical direction . It is in the application of scientific knowledge to industry that the English were most notably successful ...
... reason of the acci- dents of circumstance and a different genius in the English people , takes a more practical direction . It is in the application of scientific knowledge to industry that the English were most notably successful ...
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... reasons for these failures of con- temporary criticism to rate Hazlitt at his proper worth . He was a good hater , enjoyed the brutal literary war- fare of his age , and was in no wise dependent for his happiness upon his fellows ...
... reasons for these failures of con- temporary criticism to rate Hazlitt at his proper worth . He was a good hater , enjoyed the brutal literary war- fare of his age , and was in no wise dependent for his happiness upon his fellows ...
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Page 15 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such; I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 110 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 292 - ... by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Page 18 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Page 137 - Bo-bo was in utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labor of an hour or two at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 123 - Do you remember how we eyed it for weeks before we could make up our minds to the purchase, and had not come to a determination till it was near ten o'clock of the Saturday night, when you set off from Islington, fearing you should be too late — and when the old bookseller with some grumbling opened his shop, and by the twinkling taper (for he was setting...
Page 13 - For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Page 87 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 125 - It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treat — when two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like, while each...
Page 112 - ... door-keepers — directors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend), at long worm-eaten tables, that have been mahogany, with tarnished gilt-leather coverings, supporting massy silver inkstands long since dry; — the oaken wainscots hung with pictures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of Queen Anne, and the two first monarchs of the Brunswick dynasty; — huge charts, which subsequent discoveries have antiquated; — dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams, — and soundings...