The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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Pagina 11
... nature of virtue . - here that I wish to find some term , which will cover all the cases in which virtue can be found . If I leave out one instance , or class of instances , my definition is not complete . I fix my mind on this fact ...
... nature of virtue . - here that I wish to find some term , which will cover all the cases in which virtue can be found . If I leave out one instance , or class of instances , my definition is not complete . I fix my mind on this fact ...
Pagina 22
... nature of an individual thing ; and that the value or worthlessness of general principles , always depend on the application a man makes of them ; and he is never to be charged with an appli- cation which he disavows . O how much ...
... nature of an individual thing ; and that the value or worthlessness of general principles , always depend on the application a man makes of them ; and he is never to be charged with an appli- cation which he disavows . O how much ...
Pagina 23
... nature of that government was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom ? Is it because liberty in the abstract is to be classed among the blessings of mankind , that I am seriously to ...
... nature of that government was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom ? Is it because liberty in the abstract is to be classed among the blessings of mankind , that I am seriously to ...
Pagina 26
... nature were unworn ; every invention produced wonder ; the rapture of the au- dience increased the inspiration of the speaker ; there was a reciprocal influence ; genius was warmed by its own effects ; and the same powerful impulse ...
... nature were unworn ; every invention produced wonder ; the rapture of the au- dience increased the inspiration of the speaker ; there was a reciprocal influence ; genius was warmed by its own effects ; and the same powerful impulse ...
Pagina 28
... nature of his office , and the circumstances in which he is thrown . He teaches , to be sure , war , politics ... nature , because the book of nature is the only volume he has ever read . Thus the poet becomes excellent ; and thus the ...
... nature of his office , and the circumstances in which he is thrown . He teaches , to be sure , war , politics ... nature , because the book of nature is the only volume he has ever read . Thus the poet becomes excellent ; and thus the ...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumul 2 Leonard Withington Vizualizare completă - 1836 |
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Pagina 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Pagina 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Pagina 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Pagina 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Pagina 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Pagina 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Pagina 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Pagina 229 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Pagina 37 - Rocks, dens, and caves ! But I in none of these Find place or refuge ; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel...
Pagina 106 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.