The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No, Volume 2 |
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It is likewise fit , that in all our actions we should have considered how far they
are likely to be misunderstood , and from superficial resemblances to be
confounded with , and so appear to authorize , actions of a very different
character .
It is likewise fit , that in all our actions we should have considered how far they
are likely to be misunderstood , and from superficial resemblances to be
confounded with , and so appear to authorize , actions of a very different
character .
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Brissot , the leader of the Gironde party , is entitled to the character of a virtuous
man , and an eloquent speaker ; but he was rather a sublime visionary , than a
quick - eyed politician ; and his excellences equally with his faults rendered him ...
Brissot , the leader of the Gironde party , is entitled to the character of a virtuous
man , and an eloquent speaker ; but he was rather a sublime visionary , than a
quick - eyed politician ; and his excellences equally with his faults rendered him ...
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These dough - baked patriots are not however useless . This oscillation of
political opinion will retard the day of revolution , and it will operate as a
preventive to its excesses . Indecisiveness of character , though the effect of
timidity , is almost ...
These dough - baked patriots are not however useless . This oscillation of
political opinion will retard the day of revolution , and it will operate as a
preventive to its excesses . Indecisiveness of character , though the effect of
timidity , is almost ...
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There is a third class among the friends of freedom , who possess not the
wavering character of the first description , nor the ferocity last delineated . They
pursue the interests of freedom steadily , but with narrow and self - centering
views : they ...
There is a third class among the friends of freedom , who possess not the
wavering character of the first description , nor the ferocity last delineated . They
pursue the interests of freedom steadily , but with narrow and self - centering
views : they ...
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The imperial free towns of Germany are , with only two or three exceptions ,
enviably distinguished by the virtuous and primitive manners of the citizens , and
by the parental character of their several governments . As exceptions , however ,
I ...
The imperial free towns of Germany are , with only two or three exceptions ,
enviably distinguished by the virtuous and primitive manners of the citizens , and
by the parental character of their several governments . As exceptions , however ,
I ...
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Página 230 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 230 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Página 230 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 173 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Página 170 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Página 230 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Página 168 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting-, That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Página 174 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Página 117 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Página 220 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...