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Page 90
... vol . ii . p . 141. Mitford's edit . ) Kenrick's Poems , ludicrous , satirical , and moral , p . 168. Lond . 1768 , 8vo . 6 . have been so various , that it may be worth have 90 Wenck - Study of the Civil Law in England .
... vol . ii . p . 141. Mitford's edit . ) Kenrick's Poems , ludicrous , satirical , and moral , p . 168. Lond . 1768 , 8vo . 6 . have been so various , that it may be worth have 90 Wenck - Study of the Civil Law in England .
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... moral point of view . † Meanwhile * The convulsions we have been describing were the crises which Mesmer speaks of in his theory , and he regarded them as analogous to those salutary crises , which Na- ture sometimes brings on in the ...
... moral point of view . † Meanwhile * The convulsions we have been describing were the crises which Mesmer speaks of in his theory , and he regarded them as analogous to those salutary crises , which Na- ture sometimes brings on in the ...
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... morals ; and he viewed with a conscious disdain of superior rectitude those corrupt Gallican doctrines and practices which afterwards were so extensively patronized on the conti- nent by the mere populace of literature , which ...
... morals ; and he viewed with a conscious disdain of superior rectitude those corrupt Gallican doctrines and practices which afterwards were so extensively patronized on the conti- nent by the mere populace of literature , which ...
Page 140
... moral tact as in his critical perception of poetic propriety . Who so dull as not to see , that descriptions , such as those of Byron's and Stolberg's , are not intended so much to pourtray the scene of which they treat , as to impart ...
... moral tact as in his critical perception of poetic propriety . Who so dull as not to see , that descriptions , such as those of Byron's and Stolberg's , are not intended so much to pourtray the scene of which they treat , as to impart ...
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... moral inte- grity , and the hope which is the result of determined perse- verance for the future , and temptation overcome in the past . We believe that Frederick Leopold's conversion was real and not pretended . It was not effected ...
... moral inte- grity , and the hope which is the result of determined perse- verance for the future , and temptation overcome in the past . We believe that Frederick Leopold's conversion was real and not pretended . It was not effected ...
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Page 137 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 138 - It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 453 - Tis that enamoured Nightingale Who gives me the reply; He ever tells the same soft tale Of passion and of constancy To his mate, who rapt and fond. Listening sits, a bough beyond.
Page 4 - ... his writings, is one of perennial excellence; rare in all times and situations, and perhaps nowhere and in no time more rare than in literary Europe, at this era. We see in this man a high, self-subsistent, original, and, in many respects, even great character. He shows himself a man of wonderful gifts, and with, perhaps, a still happier combination and adjustment of these : in whom Philosophy and Poetry are not only reconciled; but blended together into a purer essence, into Religion...
Page 199 - Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Hear what Trismegistus says in praise of our sufficiency: "Of all the wonderful things, it surmounts all wonder, that man could find out the divine nature and make it.
Page 413 - I cumber you, good Margaret, much, but I would be sorry if it should be any longer than to-morrow, for it is St. Thomas' even and the Utas* of St. Peter; and therefore to-morrow long I to go to God. It were a day very meet and convenient for me.
Page 161 - ... judge is so clear and open as to declare against that impious vulgar opinion that the devil himself has power to torment and kill innocent children, or that he is pleased to divert himself with the good people's cheese, butter, pigs and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches.
Page 189 - ... who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own, but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employments, and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions.
Page 138 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal...
Page 116 - ... thumbs on the pit of the stomach and the other fingers below the ribs. Then you will descend slowly along the body as far as the knees, or better, and, if you can without incommoding yourself, to the extremity of the feet.