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" It is the nature of everything that is great and useful, both in the animate and inanimate world, to be wild and irregular, — and we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters... "
The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... - Page 448
by John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 16

1810 - 538 pages
...and we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or- live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...advances in its path : — subject it to the critic, and yon tame it into dulness. — Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...and we must be contented to take them with their alloys which belong to them or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...wisdom, when it advances in its path. Subject it to the critick, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...and we must be contented to take them with their alloys which belong to them or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...wisdom, when it advances in its path. Subject it to the critick, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...and we must be contented to take them with their alloys which belong to them or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...it advances in its path, subject it to the critic, what you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...irregular,—and we must be contented to take them ! with fhe alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer: the few...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...— and we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer: the few...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 4

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius bret£s JV»m li": fetters of criticism, but its wanderings are sanctioned...when it advances in its path— subject it to the critick, and you tame it into duhess. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping1...
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them.—Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its wanderings...rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer: the few...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...irregular,—and we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path;—subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dulness. Mighty rivers break down their banks...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...we must be contented to take them with the alloys which belong 1 о them, or live without them. — Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its...rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the flocks which are fattened on the soil that they fertilize in the summer: the few...
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