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... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccura- cies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , per- haps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers ...
... whilst they oppose every system , are wisely careful never to set up any of their own . If some inaccura- cies in calculation , in reasoning , or in method , be found , per- haps these will not be looked upon as faults by the admirers ...
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... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
... whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are otherwise enlightened . Civil government borrows a strength ...
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... wars consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been Vice - pe paid to J. Co in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... wars consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been Vice - pe paid to J. Co in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
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... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of ...
... whilst in its infancy , began by an effusion of human blood scarcely credible . The neighboring little states teemed for new destruction : the Sabines , the Samnites , the Equi , the Volsci , the Hetrurians , were broken by a series of ...
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... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it is ...
... whilst it stood ; nor from the suckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconsiderable part of the globe , such a carnage has been made in two or three short reigns , and that this great carnage , great as it is ...
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Page 106 - air Shorn of hi* beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture; and in what does this poetical picture consist
Page 86 - THE SUBLIME. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is
Page 107 - visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face. The
Page 495 - hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our ancestors, have been happy under that system. Let the memory of all actions, in contradiction to that good old mode, on both sides,
Page 102 - SECTION II. TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of
Page 451 - No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. It is then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and
Page 122 - Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury ; And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped from the clouds To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.
Page 108 - hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes ; (here was
Page 122 - midsummer, Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry with his beaver on Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury ; And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped
Page 106 - yet perhaps there is nothing of which we really understand so little, as of infinity and eternity. We do not any where meet a more sublime description than this justly celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity so suitable to the subject: - He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower; hie form had yet not