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Pagina 50
... soil rendered unkindly and barren ; and the Irish Chancellors did not provoke
any jealousy by enlightened devices to reconcile the Common Law with justice .
At the same time ancient records show that something like a system of Equity had
...
... soil rendered unkindly and barren ; and the Irish Chancellors did not provoke
any jealousy by enlightened devices to reconcile the Common Law with justice .
At the same time ancient records show that something like a system of Equity had
...
Pagina 51
Poyning's Act , the opprobrium of later Irish patriots , by which the Parliament of
the Pale was rendered subject to the English Council , and an attempt was made
to bring the great Irish lords and their vassals under the control of the law , was ...
Poyning's Act , the opprobrium of later Irish patriots , by which the Parliament of
the Pale was rendered subject to the English Council , and an attempt was made
to bring the great Irish lords and their vassals under the control of the law , was ...
Pagina 88
This prescribes that the details selected should be significant but few , and
rendered in the simplest and most vivid manner . Multiplication of needless
details tends directly to defeat the poet's main purpose , which must be to convey
a distinct ...
This prescribes that the details selected should be significant but few , and
rendered in the simplest and most vivid manner . Multiplication of needless
details tends directly to defeat the poet's main purpose , which must be to convey
a distinct ...
Pagina 106
But it is less easy to understand why Mr. Burton should have taken so little pains
to show in their true light the undoubted services rendered by Knox to his country
-to education , for example ; to civil , if not to religious , liberty . He writes of him ...
But it is less easy to understand why Mr. Burton should have taken so little pains
to show in their true light the undoubted services rendered by Knox to his country
-to education , for example ; to civil , if not to religious , liberty . He writes of him ...
Pagina 127
... would have reconciled all classes , and rendered possible the harmonious
development of the religious life of the country : and even after the Restoration
such a task would not have been beyond the reach of any statesmanlike capacity
.
... would have reconciled all classes , and rendered possible the harmonious
development of the religious life of the country : and even after the Restoration
such a task would not have been beyond the reach of any statesmanlike capacity
.
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Pagina 214 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Pagina 252 - And all is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear; Well roars the storm to those that hear A deeper voice across the storm, Proclaiming social truth shall spread, And justice, ev'n tho' thrice again The red fool-fury of the Seine Should pile her barricades with dead.
Pagina 226 - The most ancient progenitors in the kingdom of the Vertebrata, at which we are able to obtain an obscure glance, apparently consisted of a group of marine animals," resembling the larvae of existing Ascidians. These animals probably gave rise to a group of fishes, as lowly organized as the lancelet; and from these the Ganoids, and other fishes like the Lepidosiren, must have been developed. From such fish a very small advance would carry us on to the Amphibians.
Pagina 321 - For he makes me confess that I ought not to live as I do, neglecting the wants of my own soul, and busying myself with the concerns of the Athenians; therefore I hold my ears and tear myself away from him.
Pagina 214 - Secondly, as soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images of all past actions and motives would be incessantly passing through the brain...
Pagina 214 - Thirdly, after the power of language had been acquired, and the wishes of the community could be expressed, the common opinion how each member ought to act for the public good, would naturally become in a paramount degree the guide to action.
Pagina 74 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Pagina 304 - Plato exhibits the rare union of close and subtle logic with the Pythian enthusiasm of poetry, melted by the splendour and harmony of his periods into one irresistible stream of musical impressions, which hurry the persuasions onward, as in a breathless career.
Pagina 81 - Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face: I Helen, holding Paris by the lips, Smote Hector through the head; I Cressida So kissed men's mouths that they went sick or mad, Stung right at brain with me; I Guenevere...
Pagina 226 - The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.