The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 14; Volume 77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 - American literature |
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... side ; but though one is often wearied with stories of silly miracles and with prosy discourses , it is clear that the authors looked narrowly to the chain of human events , and had an accurate knowledge of the politics and passing ...
... side ; but though one is often wearied with stories of silly miracles and with prosy discourses , it is clear that the authors looked narrowly to the chain of human events , and had an accurate knowledge of the politics and passing ...
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... side by side with what is simply grotesque and ludicrous . The modern man of science may find some objects of interest ; but they are mixed inextricably with strange rubbish that once delighted the astrologer , the alchemist , or the ...
... side by side with what is simply grotesque and ludicrous . The modern man of science may find some objects of interest ; but they are mixed inextricably with strange rubbish that once delighted the astrologer , the alchemist , or the ...
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... side of the question . He was not insensible to the growing influ- ence of the scientific spirit , though he be- lieved implicitly in witchcraft , spoke with high respect of alchemy and astrology , and refused to believe that the earth ...
... side of the question . He was not insensible to the growing influ- ence of the scientific spirit , though he be- lieved implicitly in witchcraft , spoke with high respect of alchemy and astrology , and refused to believe that the earth ...
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... side of natural history , it gives us the means of testing metaphysical arguments by the touchstone of physical facts ; and in doing this Mr. Darwin seems to me to unite in a remarkable de- gree the rival claims of intuitive and util ...
... side of natural history , it gives us the means of testing metaphysical arguments by the touchstone of physical facts ; and in doing this Mr. Darwin seems to me to unite in a remarkable de- gree the rival claims of intuitive and util ...
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... side of the world were not what it is — that all " progress " resolves itself into the power of making war in a bloody and relentless fashion , such as the dark ages did not dream of , and all " friendly relations " mean palaver- ing ...
... side of the world were not what it is — that all " progress " resolves itself into the power of making war in a bloody and relentless fashion , such as the dark ages did not dream of , and all " friendly relations " mean palaver- ing ...
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Page 30 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 330 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 76 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 78 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 25 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 19 - All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Page 22 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast...
Page 85 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 225 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Page 176 - There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there...