The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary PortraitsH. Colburn, 1825 - 424 oldal |
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... object to object , but from thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He re- gards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He He meditates the coming age 6 THE ...
... object to object , but from thought to thought . He is evidently a man occupied with some train of fine and inward association . He re- gards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer . He He meditates the coming age 6 THE ...
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... object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for apprehending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that which approves itself as such on reflection , or the idea of which is a source of ...
... object , but to the capacity of the agent , and to his fitness for apprehending or attaining it . Pleasure is that which is so in itself : good is that which approves itself as such on reflection , or the idea of which is a source of ...
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... object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things thrown into masses give a greater blow to the ima- gination than when scattered and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
... object seen near strikes us more powerfully than at a distance : things thrown into masses give a greater blow to the ima- gination than when scattered and divided into their component parts . A number of mole - hills do not make a ...
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... the world for ever , like an estate by a flaw in the title - deeds . This is over - rating the importance of our own discoveries , and mistaking the nature and object of language altogether . Mr. Ben- tham JEREMY BENTHAM . 23.
... the world for ever , like an estate by a flaw in the title - deeds . This is over - rating the importance of our own discoveries , and mistaking the nature and object of language altogether . Mr. Ben- tham JEREMY BENTHAM . 23.
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William Hazlitt. nature and object of language altogether . Mr. Ben- tham has acquired this disability - it is not natural to him . His admirable little work On Usury , pub- lished forty years ago , is clear , easy , and vigorous . But ...
William Hazlitt. nature and object of language altogether . Mr. Ben- tham has acquired this disability - it is not natural to him . His admirable little work On Usury , pub- lished forty years ago , is clear , easy , and vigorous . But ...
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143. oldal - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
362. oldal - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
58. oldal - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
398. oldal - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
262. oldal - Out went the taper as she hurried in ; Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died: She closed the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide : No uttered syllable, or, woe betide...
363. oldal - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
382. oldal - Now upon Syria's land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And like a glory the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer in a vale of flowers Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
191. oldal - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
145. oldal - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
383. oldal - ... gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm West,— as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.