Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... danger of being deprived of the re- stricted power which was absolutely necessary to his per- sonal safety , then , it must be acknowledged , he adopted a more arbitrary policy . - not Yet , though we believe that the intentions of ...
... danger of being deprived of the re- stricted power which was absolutely necessary to his per- sonal safety , then , it must be acknowledged , he adopted a more arbitrary policy . - not Yet , though we believe that the intentions of ...
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... danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors ...
... danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors ...
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... dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the milita- ry character . Men ... danger . The political conse- quences are too well known . The richest and most enlight- ened part of the world was ...
... dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the milita- ry character . Men ... danger . The political conse- quences are too well known . The richest and most enlight- ened part of the world was ...
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... danger , not be- cause he is insensible to shame , but because , in the society in which he lives , timidity has ... dangerous enemy , and a still more dangerous accomplice , he was a just and beneficent ruler . With so much unfairness ...
... danger , not be- cause he is insensible to shame , but because , in the society in which he lives , timidity has ... dangerous enemy , and a still more dangerous accomplice , he was a just and beneficent ruler . With so much unfairness ...
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... danger of Dryden would have been from aiming too high ; from dwelling too much , for example , on his angels of kingdoms , and attempting a competition with that great writer , who in his own time had so incomparably succeeded in ...
... danger of Dryden would have been from aiming too high ; from dwelling too much , for example , on his angels of kingdoms , and attempting a competition with that great writer , who in his own time had so incomparably succeeded in ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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
Seite 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...