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... sense . My best thanks are due to my late friend Mr. Henry Reeve , C.B. , Editor of the Edinburgh Review , and also to the Proprietors of the Review , for permission to reprint such portions of the present Essay as appeared in the ...
... sense . My best thanks are due to my late friend Mr. Henry Reeve , C.B. , Editor of the Edinburgh Review , and also to the Proprietors of the Review , for permission to reprint such portions of the present Essay as appeared in the ...
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... sense of literary dishonesty or unfairness . No more , in still earlier times , did the putting forth a work under the name of some celebrated author involve any sense of forgery . ' Indeed , as far as I can judge , it was not usual to ...
... sense of literary dishonesty or unfairness . No more , in still earlier times , did the putting forth a work under the name of some celebrated author involve any sense of forgery . ' Indeed , as far as I can judge , it was not usual to ...
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... sense retained , though introduced in a different way 2 . 1 E. g . inter alia Statius , No. 8 . 2 We might perhaps venture to illustrate the kind of reminiscence described in the text by the form of our Lord's words on one or two ...
... sense retained , though introduced in a different way 2 . 1 E. g . inter alia Statius , No. 8 . 2 We might perhaps venture to illustrate the kind of reminiscence described in the text by the form of our Lord's words on one or two ...
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... sense ( see De Mon. III . iii . 11. 72 seqq . ) . This belief in the guidance of God's Providence alike in what we call ' sacred ' and ' profane ' history seems to supply the key to the prac- tice of Dante to which I have called ...
... sense ( see De Mon. III . iii . 11. 72 seqq . ) . This belief in the guidance of God's Providence alike in what we call ' sacred ' and ' profane ' history seems to supply the key to the prac- tice of Dante to which I have called ...
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... sense ' provided some better thing for him , ' for by the singular fiction of his secret con- version to Christianity he has secured for him the anomalous privilege of admission to purgatory , and of ultimate salvation , which is denied ...
... sense ' provided some better thing for him , ' for by the singular fiction of his secret con- version to Christianity he has secured for him the anomalous privilege of admission to purgatory , and of ultimate salvation , which is denied ...
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Page 304 - SI che mi tinse 1' una e 1' altra guancia, E poi la medicina mi riporse. Così od' io che soleva la lancia D' Achille, e del suo padre, esser cagione Prima di trista e poi di buona mancia.
Page 72 - Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.
Page 65 - My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Page 268 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
Page 159 - Dice che l'alma alla sua stella riede, credendo quella quindi esser decisa quando natura per forma la diede; e forse sua sentenza è d'altra guisa che la voce non suona, ed esser puote con intenzion da non esser derisa.
Page 111 - Quell' esser parte, per diverse essenze Da lui distinte e da lui contenute. Gli altri giron per varie differenze Le distinzion, che dentro da se hanno, Dispongono a lor fini e lor semenze. Questi organi del mondo così vanno, Come tu vedi omai di grado in grado, Che di su prendono, e di sotto fanno. Riguarda bene a me sì com' io vado Per questo loco al ver, che tu disiri, Sì che poi sappi sol tener lo guado. Lo moto e la virtù de' santi giri, Come dal fabbro 1' arte del martello , Da' beati motor...
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Page 130 - Non scese mai con sì veloce moto foco di spessa nube, quando piove da quel confine che più va remoto, com...
Page 178 - Ergo insperata deprensum luce repente inclusumque cavo saxo atque insueta rudentem desuper Alcides telis premit, omniaque arma advocat et ramis vastisque molaribus instat. 250 Ille autem, neque enim fuga iam super ulla pericli, faucibus ingentem fumum (mirabile dictu) evomit involvitque domum caligine caeca, prospectum eripiens oculis, glomeratque sub antro fumiferam noctem commixtis igne tenebris.
Page 68 - Quod factum est in ipso vita erat", et Deus maxime se ipsum velit, sequitur quod ius a Deo, prout in eo est, sit volitum. Et cum voluntas et volitum in Deo sit idem, sequitur ulterius quod divina voluntas sit ipsum ius.