Studies New and OldChapman and Hall, 1888 - 254 páginas |
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... personality of Hobbes was neither pleasing nor attractive . He was prematurely born owing to the fright his mother experienced at the news of the Spanish Armada of 1588 , as he tells us himself : - 66 Atque metum tantum concepit tunc ...
... personality of Hobbes was neither pleasing nor attractive . He was prematurely born owing to the fright his mother experienced at the news of the Spanish Armada of 1588 , as he tells us himself : - 66 Atque metum tantum concepit tunc ...
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... Mill . His countrymen may well be proud of one who concentrates in his single personality their most characteristic defects and excellences . Add to this the merits of an admirable style , and we have the picture , not only HOBBES . 29.
... Mill . His countrymen may well be proud of one who concentrates in his single personality their most characteristic defects and excellences . Add to this the merits of an admirable style , and we have the picture , not only HOBBES . 29.
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... personality , sacri vates , who have cast new lights on the meaning of their times , and lifted up their voices in earnest denunciation or solemn warning . It is not indeed easy to probe such men , or weigh them in the critical balances ...
... personality , sacri vates , who have cast new lights on the meaning of their times , and lifted up their voices in earnest denunciation or solemn warning . It is not indeed easy to probe such men , or weigh them in the critical balances ...
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... personality of the English Idealist . The influence of the thoughts of Carlyle over the modern intelligence already threatens to be an evanescent one . Whether this be accepted by utilitarians as the best criticism on the pretensions of ...
... personality of the English Idealist . The influence of the thoughts of Carlyle over the modern intelligence already threatens to be an evanescent one . Whether this be accepted by utilitarians as the best criticism on the pretensions of ...
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... personality be wholly swept away . If this be Epicureanism , then Epicurus has some message to the present generation as well as Zeno . But there are many passages in Carlyle which limit the application of the Gospel of Labour ; and it ...
... personality be wholly swept away . If this be Epicureanism , then Epicurus has some message to the present generation as well as Zeno . But there are many passages in Carlyle which limit the application of the Gospel of Labour ; and it ...
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A. H. CHURCH Anael appears Arnauld artistic BARNABY RUDGE Browning Carlyle Carlyle's character characteristic CHARLES DICKENS Charles Reade Chartism Christianity CHRISTMAS cloth colour contemporary contrast criticism Demy 8vo Descartes Dieu dislike Ditto doctrine dramatic Edition Elizabeth Emerson emotion England English essay ethical fact faith Fcap feel genius grace Hawthorne heart hero HISTORY Hobbes Hobbes's human ideal Illustrations by Phiz imagination instinct Jacqueline Pascal Large crown 8vo Latter-Day Pamphlets letter literary LITTLE DORRIT MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT metaphysics mind modern moral Morison nature never numerous Illustrations numerous Woodcuts passionate perhaps personality philosophy Phiz poems poet poetic political Port Royal Portrait Post 8vo PROFESSOR Reade's reason religion remarkable Romance Royal 8vo says scene scepticism sense sewed sister SKETCHES BY BOZ soul SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM spirit STORY Swinburne Swinburne's theory things thought tions Translated true truth verse vols Woodcuts writing
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Página 100 - The thing was my earliest attempt at 'poetry always dramatic in principle, and so many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine...
Página 17 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
Página 74 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 6 - CLINTON (RH)— A COMPENDIUM OF ENGLISH HISTORY, from the Earliest Times to AD 1872. With Copious Quotations on the Leading Events and the Constitutional History, together with Appendices. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. COBDEN, RICHARD, LIFE OF. By the RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY, MP With Portrait.
Página 65 - Highest is present in the soul of man ; that the dread essence — which is not wisdom or love or beauty or power, but all in one, and each entirely, is that for which all things exist, and that by which they are ; that Spirit creates ; that behind Nature, throughout Nature, Spirit is present. One, and not compound, it does not act upon us from without — that is, in space and time — but spiritually, or through ourselves...
Página 9 - THE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS. Edited by his Sister-in-Law and his Eldest Daughter. Two vols. uniform with " The Charles Dickens Edition " of his Works. Crown 8vo, 8s. THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS— See
Página 195 - Cela se fait par figure et mouvement, car cela est vrai. Mais de dire quels, et composer la machine, cela est ridicule; car cela est inutile, et incertain, et pénible. Et quand cela serait vrai, nous n'estimons pas que toute la philosophie vaille une heure de peine.] XCII.
Página 83 - The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written ; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
Página 80 - Indeed, we are but shadows — we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream — till the heart is touched. That touch creates us — then we begin to be — thereby we are beings of reality, and inheritors of eternity.
Página 64 - The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.