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... finer culture for its development ; indeed in many men it is never developed at all : but its results are no less certain , nay rather they are much more so ; for Reason discerns Truth 30 SELECTIONS FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... finer culture for its development ; indeed in many men it is never developed at all : but its results are no less certain , nay rather they are much more so ; for Reason discerns Truth 30 SELECTIONS FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... never die . Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man , and it is eternal as the being of man . In any point of Space , in any section of Time , let there be a living Man ; and there is an Infinitude above him and beneath him ...
... never die . Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man , and it is eternal as the being of man . In any point of Space , in any section of Time , let there be a living Man ; and there is an Infinitude above him and beneath him ...
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... never gave half as many proofs as they did that he understood the theme of his raptures . The first in France who undertook fully and clearly to expound the doc- trines contained in Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding , was ...
... never gave half as many proofs as they did that he understood the theme of his raptures . The first in France who undertook fully and clearly to expound the doc- trines contained in Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding , was ...
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... never could have been collected in the description of any Englishman , by one of his own fair coun- trywomen . La Rochefoucault , she says , was intriguing , supple , wary ; yet there never was a friend more open , more solid , or who ...
... never could have been collected in the description of any Englishman , by one of his own fair coun- trywomen . La Rochefoucault , she says , was intriguing , supple , wary ; yet there never was a friend more open , more solid , or who ...
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... never flourished as in later nations . The most esteemed of the orations of Demosthenes , are those in which he aspired at producing a sudden and vehement impression , at inflaming the minds of multitudes , and awakening all that was ...
... never flourished as in later nations . The most esteemed of the orations of Demosthenes , are those in which he aspired at producing a sudden and vehement impression , at inflaming the minds of multitudes , and awakening all that was ...
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Page 414 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 91 - Were. we required to characterize this age of ours by any single' epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in' every outward and inward sense of that word...
Page 104 - ... the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. Yet such is the fact.
Page 17 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century ; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
Page 101 - The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of its Newspapers. These preach to the people daily, weekly; admonishing kings themselves; advising peace or war, with an authority which only the first Reformers and a long-past class of Popes were possessed of; inflicting moral censure ; imparting moral encouragement, consolation, edification ; in all ways, diligently ." administering the Discipline tsf the Church.
Page 113 - ... and all because the dwellings of cotton-spinners are naked and rectangular. Mr. Southey has found out a way, he tells us, in which the effects of manufactures and agriculture may be compared. And what is this way? To stand on a hill, to look at a cottage and a factory, and to see which is the prettier.
Page 314 - ... an infinite whole, for this could only be done by the infinite synthesis in thought of finite wholes, which would itself require an infinite time for its accomplishment ; nor, for the same reason, can we follow out in thought an infinite divisibility of parts. The result is the same, whether we apply the process to limitation in space, in time, or in degree. The unconditional negation, and the unconditional aflirmation of limitation ; in other words, the infinite and absolute, properly so called,...
Page 386 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Page 14 - Wherein lies that life; how have they attained that shape and individuality? Whence comes that empyrean fire which irradiates their whole being, and pierces, at least in starry gleams, like a diviner thing, into all hearts?
Page 361 - But these lead you to believe that the very perception or sensible image is the external object. Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.