The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1Saxton and Miles, 1843 - 588 páginas |
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... kind ever offered to the reader . For ourselves , we think it but strict justice to say , that the candid spirit of the work , its just appreciation of * THE POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA ; with an Historical Introduction . By Rurus W ...
... kind ever offered to the reader . For ourselves , we think it but strict justice to say , that the candid spirit of the work , its just appreciation of * THE POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA ; with an Historical Introduction . By Rurus W ...
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... kind can raise the superstructure . Another fact in regard to the present state of Ethical Literature , is not unworthy of notice . For a long time , almost every writer surveyed this science from one of three positions - the ...
... kind can raise the superstructure . Another fact in regard to the present state of Ethical Literature , is not unworthy of notice . For a long time , almost every writer surveyed this science from one of three positions - the ...
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... kind it had , is due only to that species of it which had Plato for its founder . A proof yet stronger of Plato's success in divine things appears in this ; -that his was found the system with which Christianity most readily coalesced ...
... kind it had , is due only to that species of it which had Plato for its founder . A proof yet stronger of Plato's success in divine things appears in this ; -that his was found the system with which Christianity most readily coalesced ...
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... kind in Plato and some kindred souls of antiquity , there is none who would not earnestly wish that something might have been preserved in the wreck of ancient learning to testify the workings of the heathen mind under the dark ...
... kind in Plato and some kindred souls of antiquity , there is none who would not earnestly wish that something might have been preserved in the wreck of ancient learning to testify the workings of the heathen mind under the dark ...
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... kind of reduction , unlike the pic- tures of a convex lens , subjects must be exhibited with- out their variety of coloring , all nicer traits and touches be left out , proportions be altered , and embellishments stripped away . The ...
... kind of reduction , unlike the pic- tures of a convex lens , subjects must be exhibited with- out their variety of coloring , all nicer traits and touches be left out , proportions be altered , and embellishments stripped away . The ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 432 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Página 41 - There is no art delivered unto mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object, without which they could not consist and on which they so depend as they become actors and players, as it were, of what nature will have set forth.
Página 432 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Página 511 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 43 - I say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description, which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Página 130 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 73 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 42 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Página 75 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 44 - Grecians' divinity ; to believe, with Bembus, that they were first bringersin of all civility; to believe, with Scaliger, that no philosopher's precepts can sooner make you an honest man than the reading of Virgil; to believe, with Clauserus, the translator of Cornutus...