The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7. köideH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... interest of Defoe's life from this time forward is very far from political . He was now a man of fifty - five years of age ; he had , up to this period , written nothing but what may be called occasional litera- ture , and , except the ...
... interest of Defoe's life from this time forward is very far from political . He was now a man of fifty - five years of age ; he had , up to this period , written nothing but what may be called occasional litera- ture , and , except the ...
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... interest of Anson's or Dampier's voyages , together . with a charm of style superior even to that of the latter , and far beyond anything which the soi - disant chaplain of the " Centurion " could attain to . The journey by land across ...
... interest of Anson's or Dampier's voyages , together . with a charm of style superior even to that of the latter , and far beyond anything which the soi - disant chaplain of the " Centurion " could attain to . The journey by land across ...
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... interest in the controversy had declined . His whole strain , in sharp contrast to that of most of his predecessors , is cynical and satirical , and suggests that most of the matters discussed were of small personal concern to himself ...
... interest in the controversy had declined . His whole strain , in sharp contrast to that of most of his predecessors , is cynical and satirical , and suggests that most of the matters discussed were of small personal concern to himself ...
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... interest in evan- gelical Arminianism , the faith of such inquirers seems fairly to coincide with that of the deists . Wherever religious indifferentism is rife , the less generous forms of deism are still alive . And even some cultured ...
... interest in evan- gelical Arminianism , the faith of such inquirers seems fairly to coincide with that of the deists . Wherever religious indifferentism is rife , the less generous forms of deism are still alive . And even some cultured ...
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... interests . A very large part of the motive power in his plays consists in the temporary yielding to an evil passion ... interest of the characters and the incidents than to any excellence of construction . We see what use could be made ...
... interests . A very large part of the motive power in his plays consists in the temporary yielding to an evil passion ... interest of the characters and the incidents than to any excellence of construction . We see what use could be made ...
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Page 102 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 2 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 2 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 72 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 174 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 102 - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
Page 319 - Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college in the manner prescribed by the charter.
Page 302 - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
Page 240 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
Page 174 - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...