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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... truth of things . It is the work of fancy to enlarge , but of judgment to shorten and contract ; and therefore this must needs be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and a nobler faculty than fancy or imagination . All ...
... truth of things . It is the work of fancy to enlarge , but of judgment to shorten and contract ; and therefore this must needs be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and a nobler faculty than fancy or imagination . All ...
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... truth of one line ? Whereas prayer is an address to that Eternal Mind , which , as we have shown before , such as rationally in- vocate pretend not to inform . Nevertheless , since the nature of man is such that , while we are yet in ...
... truth of one line ? Whereas prayer is an address to that Eternal Mind , which , as we have shown before , such as rationally in- vocate pretend not to inform . Nevertheless , since the nature of man is such that , while we are yet in ...
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... truth in them which belongs to a wit- ticism , might be gathered from his writings ; and some current bons mots may probably be traced to him . The sarcastic definition , for instance , which has been given of gratitude , that it is a ...
... truth in them which belongs to a wit- ticism , might be gathered from his writings ; and some current bons mots may probably be traced to him . The sarcastic definition , for instance , which has been given of gratitude , that it is a ...
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... truths , and alone afford us any intimation of many things which , even with the aid of their lurid light , we discern but as fearful and unfathomable mys- teries . What would Shakspeare's understanding of the philosophy of human nature ...
... truths , and alone afford us any intimation of many things which , even with the aid of their lurid light , we discern but as fearful and unfathomable mys- teries . What would Shakspeare's understanding of the philosophy of human nature ...
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... truth , universally considered to have established the spurious- ness of the Epistles conclusively and unanswerably . An answer , however , was produced to it in the following year ( 1698 ) , under the title of ' Dr. Bentley's Disserta ...
... truth , universally considered to have established the spurious- ness of the Epistles conclusively and unanswerably . An answer , however , was produced to it in the following year ( 1698 ) , under the title of ' Dr. Bentley's Disserta ...
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