Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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Page 18
... writer , who , in these parti- culars , can be compared with him : his imitator , Cicero , sinks in the comparison into an ape mocking the gestures of a man . His views into the nature * The Republic , though replete with considerable ...
... writer , who , in these parti- culars , can be compared with him : his imitator , Cicero , sinks in the comparison into an ape mocking the gestures of a man . His views into the nature * The Republic , though replete with considerable ...
Page 27
... writes concerning Ephi- altus and Otus , that they sought to ascend heaven and dethrone the Gods , in reality relates to this primitive people . Jupiter and the other Gods debated what was to be done in this emergency . For neither ...
... writes concerning Ephi- altus and Otus , that they sought to ascend heaven and dethrone the Gods , in reality relates to this primitive people . Jupiter and the other Gods debated what was to be done in this emergency . For neither ...
Page 56
... writer on abstruse subjects can be conceived to address . Perhaps the most clear and vigorous statement of the intel ... write and think , am that one mind . I am but a portion of it . The words I and you , and they are grammatical ...
... writer on abstruse subjects can be conceived to address . Perhaps the most clear and vigorous statement of the intel ... write and think , am that one mind . I am but a portion of it . The words I and you , and they are grammatical ...
Page 62
... writing it , pale and agitated , to seek refuge in conver- sation from the fearful emotions it excited . No man , as these fragments prove , had such keen sensations as Shelley . His nervous temperament was wound up by the delicacy of ...
... writing it , pale and agitated , to seek refuge in conver- sation from the fearful emotions it excited . No man , as these fragments prove , had such keen sensations as Shelley . His nervous temperament was wound up by the delicacy of ...
Page 65
... writer of a philosophical treatise may , I imagine , at this advanced era of human intellect , be held excused from entering into a controversy with those reasoners , if such there are , who would claim an exemption from its decrees in ...
... writer of a philosophical treatise may , I imagine , at this advanced era of human intellect , be held excused from entering into a controversy with those reasoners , if such there are , who would claim an exemption from its decrees in ...
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