Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 1. kötetLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , until they have awakened the de- votional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting ...
... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a saint , until they have awakened the de- votional feelings of their auditors by exhibiting ...
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... interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have con- ceived respecting the ...
... interest , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have con- ceived respecting the ...
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... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily ...
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk to the ghosts and dæmons , without any emotion of unearthly awe . We could , like Don Juan , ask them to supper , and eat heartily ...
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... interest in his character , for we think that his sentence describes him with perfect justice as “ a tyrant , a traitor , a murderer , and a public enemy ; " but because we are convinced that the measure was most injurious to the cause ...
... interest in his character , for we think that his sentence describes him with perfect justice as “ a tyrant , a traitor , a murderer , and a public enemy ; " but because we are convinced that the measure was most injurious to the cause ...
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... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in gene- ral terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being , for whose power nothing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in gene- ral terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being , for whose power nothing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
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