A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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... truth , one of the pleasantest writers of his time , — easy , colloquial , genial , human , full of fine fancies and verbal niceties , possessing a loving if not a " learned spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his ...
... truth , one of the pleasantest writers of his time , — easy , colloquial , genial , human , full of fine fancies and verbal niceties , possessing a loving if not a " learned spirit , " with hardly a spice of bitterness in his ...
Page 48
... truth rendered them still more desirous of departing from conventional degra- dations of it , came to agree that the nature of the deity was inconceivable ; and that the most exalted being they * Virtue or vice either if accompanied ...
... truth rendered them still more desirous of departing from conventional degra- dations of it , came to agree that the nature of the deity was inconceivable ; and that the most exalted being they * Virtue or vice either if accompanied ...
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... truth , im- possible to argue with any certainty from things human to things divine . The only service to all appearance , which our faculties can do for us in these questions , is to save us from the admission of gratuitous absurdities ...
... truth , im- possible to argue with any certainty from things human to things divine . The only service to all appearance , which our faculties can do for us in these questions , is to save us from the admission of gratuitous absurdities ...
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... truth ; or your brother became an owl or a flint - stone ; or your son was to become a criminal , or a madman , because his grandfather unwittingly married against the god's con- sent . The vulgar thought how wilful and unjust they ...
... truth ; or your brother became an owl or a flint - stone ; or your son was to become a criminal , or a madman , because his grandfather unwittingly married against the god's con- sent . The vulgar thought how wilful and unjust they ...
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... truth and beauty which are by their nature lasting , become visible and affecting to the mind in pro- portion to the truth and beauty of its own tact for univer- sality . Bacon , though no poet , had it , and adorned his house with ...
... truth and beauty which are by their nature lasting , become visible and affecting to the mind in pro- portion to the truth and beauty of its own tact for univer- sality . Bacon , though no poet , had it , and adorned his house with ...
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