AddisonMacmillan, 1884 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and character of Addison scarcely any ...
... moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and character of Addison scarcely any ...
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
... moral system , the consequence of which was to encourage the powerful in the indulgence of every selfish instinct . As the Puritans had oppressed the country with a system of inhuman religion and transcendental morality , so now , in ...
... moral system , the consequence of which was to encourage the powerful in the indulgence of every selfish instinct . As the Puritans had oppressed the country with a system of inhuman religion and transcendental morality , so now , in ...
Pagina 15
... moral world , where it has no business , from which it must needs fall headlong ; as dizzy and incapable of making a stand as a Swedenborgian bad spirit that has wandered un- awares into his sphere of Good Men or Angels . But in its own ...
... moral world , where it has no business , from which it must needs fall headlong ; as dizzy and incapable of making a stand as a Swedenborgian bad spirit that has wandered un- awares into his sphere of Good Men or Angels . But in its own ...
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