Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, เล่มที่ 2James Munroe, 1838 |
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Thomas Carlyle. Doubtless , to his own contemporaries , to such of them at least as had any insight into the actual state of men's minds , Voltaire already appeared as a note - worthy and decidedly historical personage yet , perhaps ...
Thomas Carlyle. Doubtless , to his own contemporaries , to such of them at least as had any insight into the actual state of men's minds , Voltaire already appeared as a note - worthy and decidedly historical personage yet , perhaps ...
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... least in all anecdotic , departments , rendering most of these works extremely reada- ble , still further favored their circulation , both at home and abroad so that now , in most countries , Voltaire , has been read of and talked of ...
... least in all anecdotic , departments , rendering most of these works extremely reada- ble , still further favored their circulation , both at home and abroad so that now , in most countries , Voltaire , has been read of and talked of ...
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... least little inferior , in the great art of getting done with life , or , * 6 ' By Frank Hall Standish , Esq . ' ( London , 1821 ) ; a work , which we can recommend only to such as feel themselves in extreme want of information on this ...
... least little inferior , in the great art of getting done with life , or , * 6 ' By Frank Hall Standish , Esq . ' ( London , 1821 ) ; a work , which we can recommend only to such as feel themselves in extreme want of information on this ...
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... least comprehend it , be looked at neither from the parish belfry , nor any Peterloo platform ; but , if possible , from some natural and infinitely higher point of vision . It is a remarkable fact , that throughout the last fifty years ...
... least comprehend it , be looked at neither from the parish belfry , nor any Peterloo platform ; but , if possible , from some natural and infinitely higher point of vision . It is a remarkable fact , that throughout the last fifty years ...
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... least , with every allowance for good fortune , an almost un- rivalled expertness of management . There must have been a great talent of some kind at work here : a cause propor- tionate to the effect . It is wonderful , truly , to ...
... least , with every allowance for good fortune , an almost un- rivalled expertness of management . There must have been a great talent of some kind at work here : a cause propor- tionate to the effect . It is wonderful , truly , to ...
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altogether appears Avianus Balmung beauty boundless Brunhild called century character Chriemhild Christian death deep Dietrich of Bern divine Earth eyes Fables fair faith Father feeling force French Friedrich Schlegel genius German Goethe Gunther Hagen hand happy heart Heaven Heinrich von Ofterdingen Heldenbuch hero highest History honor Hugo von Trimberg Humor infinite Isegrim King Leipsic less lies light literary Literature living look Louis XV Ludwig Tieck man's Marquise du Chatelet matter means mechanical mind Minnesinger moral Mysticism Nature never Nibelungen night noble Novalis nowise once Paul perhaps Philosopher Poem Poet poetic Poetry readers reckon regard Religion Richter scene Schiller seems sense Siegfried singular sort soul speak spirit stand strange things thou thought Tieck tion true truly truth universal virtue Voltaire Voltaire's Von der Hagen whole wise wonderful words worth writing
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หน้า 124 - Flowers,' or a baser kind of dust, we shall not predict. We give them in a miscellaneous shape ; overlooking those classifications which, even in the text, are not and could not be very rigidly adhered to. ' Philosophy can bake no bread ; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.
หน้า 260 - by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I ; I can do no other: God assist me!
หน้า 5 - When Tamerlane had finished building his pyramid of seventy thousand human skulls, and was seen 'standing at the gate of Damascus, glittering in steel, with his battle-axe on his shoulder...
หน้า 147 - What changes, too, this addition of power is introducing into the social system ; how wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and .more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor...
หน้า 227 - The treasures of his mind are of a similar description with the mind itself; his knowledge is gathered from all the kingdoms of Art, and Science, and Nature, and lies round him in huge unwieldy heaps. His very language is Titanian ; deep, strong, tumultuous ; shining with a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes.
หน้า 259 - The following, for example, jars upon our ears: yet there is something in it like the sound of Alpine avalanches, or the first murmur of earthquakes; in the very vastness of which dissonance a higher unison is revealed to us. Luther wrote this Song in a time of blackest threatenings, which however could in nowise become a time of despair.
หน้า 153 - Leuwenhoek microscopes, and inflation with the anatomical blowpipe. Thought, he is inclined to hold, is still secreted by the brain; but then Poetry and Religion (and it is really worth knowing) are 'a product of the smaller intestines'!
หน้า 143 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
หน้า 150 - These things, which we state lightly enough here, are yet of deep import, and indicate a mighty change in our whole manner of existence. For the same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand.
หน้า 417 - We may say, that to few mortals has it been granted to earn such a place in Universal History as Tyll: for now after five centuries, when Wallace's birthplace is unknown even to the Scots; and the Admirable Crichton still more rapidly is grown a shadow; and Edward Longshanks sleeps unregarded save by a few antiquarian...