Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 59
... wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declama- tions of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style ...
... wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declama- tions of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style ...
Pagina 83
... wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties . spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool meditation G 2 MACHIAVELLI . 83.
... wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties . spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool meditation G 2 MACHIAVELLI . 83.
Pagina 92
... wish to avenge his own cause and that of his brethren in misfortune , carried him beyond even the licence of fiction . Jonson seems to have combined some hints taken from this tale with others from Boccaccio , in the plot of The Devil ...
... wish to avenge his own cause and that of his brethren in misfortune , carried him beyond even the licence of fiction . Jonson seems to have combined some hints taken from this tale with others from Boccaccio , in the plot of The Devil ...
Pagina 106
... wish to dazzle at any cost which pro- duces affectation in the manner of a writer , is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings . The judicious and candid mind of Machiavelli shows itself in his luminous , manly , and polished ...
... wish to dazzle at any cost which pro- duces affectation in the manner of a writer , is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings . The judicious and candid mind of Machiavelli shows itself in his luminous , manly , and polished ...
Pagina 122
... wishes to avoid a dis- agreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to be- lieve the Pope infallible in matters of doctrine , and at the same time to believe doctrines which he pro ...
... wishes to avoid a dis- agreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to be- lieve the Pope infallible in matters of doctrine , and at the same time to believe doctrines which he pro ...
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