Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Pagina 5
... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting ma- terials , ages more in separating ...
... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting ma- terials , ages more in separating ...
Pagina 37
... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private vir- tues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
... facts , and content themselves with calling testimony to character . He had so many private vir- tues ! And had James the Second no private virtues ? Was Oliver Cromwell , his bitterest enemies themselves being judges , destitute of ...
Pagina 52
... fact the neces- sary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
... fact the neces- sary effects of it . The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other . One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred , ambition and fear . Death had lost its terrors ...
Pagina 101
... have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It was considered as an indi- cation of political apostasy . The fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty H 3 MACHIAVELLI . 101.
... have rendered the name of the work odious in later times . It was considered as an indi- cation of political apostasy . The fact however seems to have been that Machiavelli , despairing of the liberty H 3 MACHIAVELLI . 101.
Pagina 110
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the ...
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