American Quarterly Review, Volumen12;Volumen17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... never become really , what Byron styled it ironically , classic ground , yet as having done honour to genius , it may rank with most other commercial and manufacturing towns , despite of the satire . The great value of the volumes now ...
... never become really , what Byron styled it ironically , classic ground , yet as having done honour to genius , it may rank with most other commercial and manufacturing towns , despite of the satire . The great value of the volumes now ...
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... never violent , and always simultaneous , as though the tunes or the burdens of the songs put one spirit into the whole - such a perfect consonance appeared in all their gestures and attitudes , while their countenances changed not for ...
... never violent , and always simultaneous , as though the tunes or the burdens of the songs put one spirit into the whole - such a perfect consonance appeared in all their gestures and attitudes , while their countenances changed not for ...
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... never to forget self - respect , they will be cautious of conferring such distinction on others , as may tend to depreciate themselves . Accordingly , while we are amused by descriptions of ceremonies remote from our own habits , we ...
... never to forget self - respect , they will be cautious of conferring such distinction on others , as may tend to depreciate themselves . Accordingly , while we are amused by descriptions of ceremonies remote from our own habits , we ...
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... Never did any annals exhibit a greater want of patriotism , or more insen- sibility to public virtue . Here only do we find instances of armies bribed to lose a battle . In their eternal jealousy of each other , there was neither wisdom ...
... Never did any annals exhibit a greater want of patriotism , or more insen- sibility to public virtue . Here only do we find instances of armies bribed to lose a battle . In their eternal jealousy of each other , there was neither wisdom ...
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... never was any but an ignorant and fanciful mob led from plan to plan , by the unsubstantial , and sometimes destructive , fire of dishonest eloquence . Their religion itself was the source and scene of luxury and display ; and six ...
... never was any but an ignorant and fanciful mob led from plan to plan , by the unsubstantial , and sometimes destructive , fire of dishonest eloquence . Their religion itself was the source and scene of luxury and display ; and six ...
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Página 245 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions ; and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 233 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Página 244 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Página 367 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 367 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 245 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Página 437 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Página 245 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 244 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Página 357 - I imagine, any one will easily grant, that it would be impertinent to suppose the ideas of colours innate in a creature to whom God hath given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes from external objects : and no less unreasonable would it be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind.