Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... passions and interest , without regard to moral principle , or those who may severely suffer from such a conduct . By hypocrisy , I understand a character of mind , which , equally disregarding moral principle and sympathy , studiously ...
... passions and interest , without regard to moral principle , or those who may severely suffer from such a conduct . By hypocrisy , I understand a character of mind , which , equally disregarding moral principle and sympathy , studiously ...
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... passions ; for every character to a reflecting mind is either a positive or a negative lesson . It is said , that the great moral of the Iliad is , to teach the Greeks the advantages of union . The Greeks , in the time of Homer , had no ...
... passions ; for every character to a reflecting mind is either a positive or a negative lesson . It is said , that the great moral of the Iliad is , to teach the Greeks the advantages of union . The Greeks , in the time of Homer , had no ...
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... passions , which originate the quarrels and dissensions of men . Every thing contrary to this is the character of Homer's celestial machinery . They appear with no dignity of character , with no abstraction from the lowest follies ...
... passions , which originate the quarrels and dissensions of men . Every thing contrary to this is the character of Homer's celestial machinery . They appear with no dignity of character , with no abstraction from the lowest follies ...
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... passions , in which the epic peculiarly delights . I. If it be admitted , that instruction , and moral instruction , should be a principal ob- ject of the sublimer epic , this end is not only not promoted , but absolutely perverted , by ...
... passions , in which the epic peculiarly delights . I. If it be admitted , that instruction , and moral instruction , should be a principal ob- ject of the sublimer epic , this end is not only not promoted , but absolutely perverted , by ...
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... passion , and crime in them dig up the very foundations of honour and virtue in the human mind . There is no alternative be- tween this effect and pure atheism , or the abandonment of all religious principle what- ever ; and , perhaps ...
... passion , and crime in them dig up the very foundations of honour and virtue in the human mind . There is no alternative be- tween this effect and pure atheism , or the abandonment of all religious principle what- ever ; and , perhaps ...
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