Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 23
... important principle . From these considerations , we infer that no poet , who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful failure . Still , however , there was ...
... important principle . From these considerations , we infer that no poet , who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful failure . Still , however , there was ...
Pagina 32
... important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ...
... important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be deduced . We are entitled to that vantage ...
Pagina 38
... important of all human relations ; and if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at ...
... important of all human relations ; and if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at ...
Pagina 39
... important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty ...
... important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the civil war . They were the price of our liberty ...
Pagina 51
... importance belonged , on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest , who had been destined , before heaven and earth were created , to enjoy a felicity which should con- tinue when heaven and ...
... importance belonged , on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest , who had been destined , before heaven and earth were created , to enjoy a felicity which should con- tinue when heaven and ...
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