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Pagina 25
... circumstance gives us pleasure , inasmuch as it shows that a taste for subjects , certainly not the best adapted to attract the generality of readers , has prevailed extensively throughout the community ; but at the same time it ...
... circumstance gives us pleasure , inasmuch as it shows that a taste for subjects , certainly not the best adapted to attract the generality of readers , has prevailed extensively throughout the community ; but at the same time it ...
Pagina 28
... circumstances which had not before been noticed , will draw different conclusions from apparently the same pre- mises . We have repeated instances of this in our daily ex- " It will be seen that we are not speaking of such books , as ...
... circumstances which had not before been noticed , will draw different conclusions from apparently the same pre- mises . We have repeated instances of this in our daily ex- " It will be seen that we are not speaking of such books , as ...
Pagina 36
... circumstances . If , for example , we suppose labour to have become twice as productive as previously , while the farmers , to supply the demand for grain , were obliged to till land which would produce only half as much corn as had ...
... circumstances . If , for example , we suppose labour to have become twice as productive as previously , while the farmers , to supply the demand for grain , were obliged to till land which would produce only half as much corn as had ...
Pagina 42
... circumstance that Mr. R. believes wealth to increase as the ex- changeable value of the commodities increases - a position di- rectly the reverse of the truth . The wealth of an individual is estimated by the exchangeable value of all ...
... circumstance that Mr. R. believes wealth to increase as the ex- changeable value of the commodities increases - a position di- rectly the reverse of the truth . The wealth of an individual is estimated by the exchangeable value of all ...
Pagina 43
... circumstances in which an individual is always placed , from those in which a nation must always be placed , they never would have concluded that a nation could become wealthy , in that sense of the word in which an individual becomes ...
... circumstances in which an individual is always placed , from those in which a nation must always be placed , they never would have concluded that a nation could become wealthy , in that sense of the word in which an individual becomes ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 485 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Pagina 306 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Pagina 301 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Pagina 314 - Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust ; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things ; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust ; Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings. Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be ; Which breaks the clouds, and opens forth the light, That doth both shine, and give us sight to see.
Pagina 494 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem...
Pagina 294 - And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Pagina 301 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus commenting that book is sufficient to confirm.
Pagina 31 - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Pagina 302 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity " and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such " delight, to those especially of soft and delicious temper " who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless " they see her elegantly drest...
Pagina 518 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.