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Pagina 3
... morals , taste , and breeding , are operations of which the credit , though it is certainly to be ascribed to particular individuals , is generally absorbed by society itself . Macaulay's eulogy is as just as it is eloquent , but the ...
... morals , taste , and breeding , are operations of which the credit , though it is certainly to be ascribed to particular individuals , is generally absorbed by society itself . Macaulay's eulogy is as just as it is eloquent , but the ...
Pagina 6
... morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they were capable of receiving and meliorating and , above all , of pre- serving the accessories of science and ...
... morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they were capable of receiving and meliorating and , above all , of pre- serving the accessories of science and ...
Pagina 11
... morality , so now , in order to get as far from Puritanism as possible , it seemed necessary for every one aspiring to be thought a gentleman to avow himself an atheist or a debauchee . The ideas of the man in the mode after the I. ] 11 ...
... morality , so now , in order to get as far from Puritanism as possible , it seemed necessary for every one aspiring to be thought a gentleman to avow himself an atheist or a debauchee . The ideas of the man in the mode after the I. ] 11 ...
Pagina 20
... morals of the Court , they could not avoid being insensibly affected by the tone of grace and elegance which prevailed in Court circles . And in this respect , if in no other , our gratitude is due to the Caro- line dramatists , who may ...
... morals of the Court , they could not avoid being insensibly affected by the tone of grace and elegance which prevailed in Court circles . And in this respect , if in no other , our gratitude is due to the Caro- line dramatists , who may ...
Pagina 21
... morality , sought to sacrifice to their system the most permanent and even innocent instincts of human nature . Between the two extreme parties was the unorganised body of the nation , grouped round old customs and institutions ...
... morality , sought to sacrifice to their system the most permanent and even innocent instincts of human nature . Between the two extreme parties was the unorganised body of the nation , grouped round old customs and institutions ...
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