The Quarterly Review, Band 98William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1856 |
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... spirit and cannot bear contempt . ' There are marvellous things in the chapter on the Devil and his Works . ' For example : - : - ' Dr. Luther said he had heard from the elector of Saxony , John Frederic , Frederic , that a powerful ...
... spirit and cannot bear contempt . ' There are marvellous things in the chapter on the Devil and his Works . ' For example : - : - ' Dr. Luther said he had heard from the elector of Saxony , John Frederic , Frederic , that a powerful ...
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... spirits , as well as of mental gifts . At any rate there are great names which show that the talent for talking is distinct from the talent for writing . Addison , who has been condemned upon his own happy metaphor , that he could draw ...
... spirits , as well as of mental gifts . At any rate there are great names which show that the talent for talking is distinct from the talent for writing . Addison , who has been condemned upon his own happy metaphor , that he could draw ...
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... in Pope's well - known lines : - 6 - Spirit of Arnall ! aid me while I lie . Cobham's a coward , Polwarth is a slave , And Lyttleton a dark designing knave ; St. St. John has ever been a wealthy fool , But Table - Talk . 23.
... in Pope's well - known lines : - 6 - Spirit of Arnall ! aid me while I lie . Cobham's a coward , Polwarth is a slave , And Lyttleton a dark designing knave ; St. St. John has ever been a wealthy fool , But Table - Talk . 23.
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... men who have possessed the endowment . The mass of modern diners - out ' are mere jokers who have some fun and great animal spirits . This A amount amount of facetiousness is compatible with a very ordinary un- Table - Talk . 25.
... men who have possessed the endowment . The mass of modern diners - out ' are mere jokers who have some fun and great animal spirits . This A amount amount of facetiousness is compatible with a very ordinary un- Table - Talk . 25.
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... spirit , and deriving consolation and assistance from the labours of one another . The place of honour in the movement belongs , perhaps , to Switzerland , where Pestalozzi , Fellenberg , and Vehrli , succes- * We have heard an anecdote ...
... spirit , and deriving consolation and assistance from the labours of one another . The place of honour in the movement belongs , perhaps , to Switzerland , where Pestalozzi , Fellenberg , and Vehrli , succes- * We have heard an anecdote ...
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Seite 26 - A Complete Collection Of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England.
Seite 20 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Seite 115 - Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good.
Seite 167 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Seite 168 - On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.
Seite 168 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Seite 20 - That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Seite 101 - Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage ; the latter, the emperors of Germany and kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the fifth may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Seite 168 - I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.
Seite 18 - He heth consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, feight in his imagination.