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... tion , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that ...
... tion , and of the extreme danger of letting the imagination loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack every thing the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that ...
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Edmund Burke. On considering political societies , their origin , their constitu- tion , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness ...
Edmund Burke. On considering political societies , their origin , their constitu- tion , and their effects , I have sometimes been in a good deal more than doubt , whether the Creator did ever really intend man for a state of happiness ...
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... tion of our most excellent church . Both I am sensible have their foundations on a rock . No discovery of truth can pre- judice them . On the contrary , the more closely the origin of religion and government are examined , the more ...
... tion of our most excellent church . Both I am sensible have their foundations on a rock . No discovery of truth can pre- judice them . On the contrary , the more closely the origin of religion and government are examined , the more ...
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... tion on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the individuals of our race by their conduct when united and packed into nations and kingdoms , he ...
... tion on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ; and truly , if a man judged of the individuals of our race by their conduct when united and packed into nations and kingdoms , he ...
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... tion . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke 150,000 Romans by a massa- cre . In that war Sylla destroyed 300,000 men at Cheronea . He defeated Mithridates's army under Dorilaus , and ...
... tion . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one stroke 150,000 Romans by a massa- cre . In that war Sylla destroyed 300,000 men at Cheronea . He defeated Mithridates's army under Dorilaus , and ...
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Page 102 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 159 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 103 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 100 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 425 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 100 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects ; but...
Page 82 - But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications,...
Page 106 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 110 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 473 - I stood near him ; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr— his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.