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... proofs of your disinterested attachment ; —knowing , too , in how entire a sympathy with your feelings in this respect the partner of your name has blended the affectionate regards of a sister or daughter with almost a mother's watchful ...
... proofs of your disinterested attachment ; —knowing , too , in how entire a sympathy with your feelings in this respect the partner of your name has blended the affectionate regards of a sister or daughter with almost a mother's watchful ...
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... proof , that there are still to be found among us a respectable number of readers who are desirous to derive pleasure from the consciousness of being instructed 01 meliorated : and who feel a sufficient interest as to the foundations of ...
... proof , that there are still to be found among us a respectable number of readers who are desirous to derive pleasure from the consciousness of being instructed 01 meliorated : and who feel a sufficient interest as to the foundations of ...
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... proof of the charge , and the question rests on the truth or accuracy with which they have been stated ; or they acquire their character from the circumstances . I have looked into a ponderous review of the corpuscular philosophy by a ...
... proof of the charge , and the question rests on the truth or accuracy with which they have been stated ; or they acquire their character from the circumstances . I have looked into a ponderous review of the corpuscular philosophy by a ...
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... proofs may have been legitimately supplied by the understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justi- fied on the principle of ...
... proofs may have been legitimately supplied by the understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justi- fied on the principle of ...
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... is doubtless as much too ballad - like , as the later versions are too epic ; but still , on ta whole , it leaves a much truer impression of the original . proof of his high presumption ; and the confident and 40 THE FRIEND .
... is doubtless as much too ballad - like , as the later versions are too epic ; but still , on ta whole , it leaves a much truer impression of the original . proof of his high presumption ; and the confident and 40 THE FRIEND .
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Página 69 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 416 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, yo And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Página 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Página 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Página 77 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason?
Página 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...