Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... mind . Doubtless , too , whatever may be thought of the literary tendencies of puritanism and republicanism when ... minds were trained by the former , and almost none by the latter . SURVIVING WRITERS OF THE PRECEDING PERIOD . With the ...
... mind . Doubtless , too , whatever may be thought of the literary tendencies of puritanism and republicanism when ... minds were trained by the former , and almost none by the latter . SURVIVING WRITERS OF THE PRECEDING PERIOD . With the ...
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... minds the pictures of these in true and lively colours , we should scarce be able to attend any thing else , or ever divert our imagination from these two objects for what can more affect us than the greatest : glory that ever was ...
... minds the pictures of these in true and lively colours , we should scarce be able to attend any thing else , or ever divert our imagination from these two objects for what can more affect us than the greatest : glory that ever was ...
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... minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to see a single person burnt alive ; here are millions shrieking in the flames at once . It is frightful to us to look ...
... minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to see a single person burnt alive ; here are millions shrieking in the flames at once . It is frightful to us to look ...
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... mind and character . But , having once fallen into neglect , Tillotson's writings have no qualities that will ever revive attention to them . There is much more of a true vitality in the sermons of Dr. Robert South , whose career of ...
... mind and character . But , having once fallen into neglect , Tillotson's writings have no qualities that will ever revive attention to them . There is much more of a true vitality in the sermons of Dr. Robert South , whose career of ...
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... mind could at any time be so happy as to light upon it . Most of the writings and dis- courses in the world are but illustration and rhetoric , which signifies as much as nothing to a mind eager in pursuit after the causes and ...
... mind could at any time be so happy as to light upon it . Most of the writings and dis- courses in the world are but illustration and rhetoric , which signifies as much as nothing to a mind eager in pursuit after the causes and ...
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