The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of ...
... human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of ...
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... human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of inno- vations may propagate his ...
... human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve . If nothing may be published but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth : if every dreamer of inno- vations may propagate his ...
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... human attainment ; and having , by excessive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society or the rights of government , undertook the employment without ...
... human attainment ; and having , by excessive praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society or the rights of government , undertook the employment without ...
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... human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agreeable to reason , than that the highest mind should have the sovereign power . Such , Sir , are you by general confession ; such are the things achieved by you , the greatest ...
... human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agreeable to reason , than that the highest mind should have the sovereign power . Such , Sir , are you by general confession ; such are the things achieved by you , the greatest ...
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... human , it ought to be reason- able , which can hardly be said of the conduct of the two brothers ; who , when their sister sinks with fa- tigue in a pathless wilderness , wander both away together in search of berries too far to find ...
... human , it ought to be reason- able , which can hardly be said of the conduct of the two brothers ; who , when their sister sinks with fa- tigue in a pathless wilderness , wander both away together in search of berries too far to find ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.