Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... received the light , which all , as from a com- cies must become his own . The great instrument mon focus , have scattered over the darkest periods of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry ad- of succeeding time . We know no more ...
... received the light , which all , as from a com- cies must become his own . The great instrument mon focus , have scattered over the darkest periods of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry ad- of succeeding time . We know no more ...
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... receiving : it is ever still the light of life ; the source of whatever of beautiful or generous or true can have place in an evil time . It will readily be confessed that those among the luxurious citizens of Syracuse and Alexandria ...
... receiving : it is ever still the light of life ; the source of whatever of beautiful or generous or true can have place in an evil time . It will readily be confessed that those among the luxurious citizens of Syracuse and Alexandria ...
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... receiving intense and im passioned conceptions respecting man and nature . The persons in whom this power resides , may often , as far as regards many portions of their nature , have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of ...
... receiving intense and im passioned conceptions respecting man and nature . The persons in whom this power resides , may often , as far as regards many portions of their nature , have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of ...
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... received a check , and became retrograde , are problems left to the wonder and conjecture of posterity . The wrecks and fragments of those subtle and profound minds , like the ruins of a fine statue , obscurely suggest to us the ...
... received a check , and became retrograde , are problems left to the wonder and conjecture of posterity . The wrecks and fragments of those subtle and profound minds , like the ruins of a fine statue , obscurely suggest to us the ...
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... received from the latter philosophers of the Periclean age a firm basis . All our more exact philosophy is built upon the labours of these great men , and many of the words which we employ in metaphysical distinc- tions were invented by ...
... received from the latter philosophers of the Periclean age a firm basis . All our more exact philosophy is built upon the labours of these great men , and many of the words which we employ in metaphysical distinc- tions were invented by ...
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