American Quarterly Review, Volumen12;Volumen17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1832 |
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... true is the line of Gold- smith , speaking of man generally , " His first , best country ever is at home . " The volumes contain much matter to which we have been un- able , within our limits , even to advert , and which are deserving ...
... true is the line of Gold- smith , speaking of man generally , " His first , best country ever is at home . " The volumes contain much matter to which we have been un- able , within our limits , even to advert , and which are deserving ...
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... true record of national dispositions , and in tracing the rise , progress , and fall of any people , it must unfold the characteristics which accompanied them through their exist- ence . It must therefore be the philosophical result of ...
... true record of national dispositions , and in tracing the rise , progress , and fall of any people , it must unfold the characteristics which accompanied them through their exist- ence . It must therefore be the philosophical result of ...
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... true , it would be lamentable ; because , as may be perceived in almost every community , without the influence of some great and leading minds , above the usual rate of excellence , the world would be very apt to retrograde : -and this ...
... true , it would be lamentable ; because , as may be perceived in almost every community , without the influence of some great and leading minds , above the usual rate of excellence , the world would be very apt to retrograde : -and this ...
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... true genius , a man who used his powers with the wisest energy , who perceived by the force of his reflections , consequences of which no glimmer occurred to men of less penetration and combination - has re- ceived the full degree of ...
... true genius , a man who used his powers with the wisest energy , who perceived by the force of his reflections , consequences of which no glimmer occurred to men of less penetration and combination - has re- ceived the full degree of ...
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... true civilization a single principle of which enlight ened industry could profit ; and of all her rivals and cotemporaries , of all her equals in renown , she has contributed the least to the progress and happiness of the species ...
... true civilization a single principle of which enlight ened industry could profit ; and of all her rivals and cotemporaries , of all her equals in renown , she has contributed the least to the progress and happiness of the species ...
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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.