An Introduction to a Course of German Literature: In Lectures to the Students of the University of LondonJ. Taylor, 1830 - 157 pages |
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... existence of the individual man , is also the acknowledged aim of mankind generally - which is perfection , according to the model of the Eternal Spirit , who , hovering above the waters , called by love his creation into life . In ...
... existence of the individual man , is also the acknowledged aim of mankind generally - which is perfection , according to the model of the Eternal Spirit , who , hovering above the waters , called by love his creation into life . In ...
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... existence is undisturbed by the perish- ing of single members , from which succeeding ones arise . It has its great periods , when its spirit ob- tains , as it were , a new impulse in order to effect its regeneration . If even those ...
... existence is undisturbed by the perish- ing of single members , from which succeeding ones arise . It has its great periods , when its spirit ob- tains , as it were , a new impulse in order to effect its regeneration . If even those ...
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... existence ; and the perusal of the classics , then , kindles our enthusiasm more than at any subsequent time ; though their beauties , in another sense , may move us more in our maturer years . This period of life is not favourable to ...
... existence ; and the perusal of the classics , then , kindles our enthusiasm more than at any subsequent time ; though their beauties , in another sense , may move us more in our maturer years . This period of life is not favourable to ...
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... existence bright and blissful ; we find the Romans , on the contrary , employing the same engines solely for the gratification of their in- satiable love of rule , which , from the origin of the commonwealth until its gradual decline ...
... existence bright and blissful ; we find the Romans , on the contrary , employing the same engines solely for the gratification of their in- satiable love of rule , which , from the origin of the commonwealth until its gradual decline ...
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... existence through so many centuries after the genuine proud and noble spirit had passed away , but by the reverence for ancient manners and institutions which continued to influence the people . I have called the Romans an unpoetical ...
... existence through so many centuries after the genuine proud and noble spirit had passed away , but by the reverence for ancient manners and institutions which continued to influence the people . I have called the Romans an unpoetical ...
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Page 154 - Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein' gute Wehr und Waffen, Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not, Die uns jetzt hat betroffen. Der alt' böse Feind Mit Ernst er's jetzt meint; Groß' Macht und viel List Sein' grausam Rüstung ist, Auf Erd
Page 59 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.