Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 46W. Blackwood., 1839 - England |
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... political changes , the effects of which are still felt , that its merits or demerits become less a ques-. tion. of. taste. than. of. personal. feeling. ,. to be decided according to the preju- dices entertained by the critic in favour of ...
... political changes , the effects of which are still felt , that its merits or demerits become less a ques-. tion. of. taste. than. of. personal. feeling. ,. to be decided according to the preju- dices entertained by the critic in favour of ...
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... political reform . Some traces of the sceptical spirit of a later period , may indeed be traced even among the contemporaries of Bossuet , in the extensive erudi- tion of Bayle , combined with a spirit of mockery and universal doubt ...
... political reform . Some traces of the sceptical spirit of a later period , may indeed be traced even among the contemporaries of Bossuet , in the extensive erudi- tion of Bayle , combined with a spirit of mockery and universal doubt ...
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... political interest , Voltaire has entirely banish- ed ; and we are left without a glimpse into domestic life , or one tranquil con- versation in which the Stoic and the politician relaxes into the man . The famous scene , in which the ...
... political interest , Voltaire has entirely banish- ed ; and we are left without a glimpse into domestic life , or one tranquil con- versation in which the Stoic and the politician relaxes into the man . The famous scene , in which the ...
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... political and philosophical speculations of Voltaire exercised a strong influence over his own age , and tended greatly to accelerate those at- tacks upon all authority which heralded the Revolution , no calm observer can reasonably ...
... political and philosophical speculations of Voltaire exercised a strong influence over his own age , and tended greatly to accelerate those at- tacks upon all authority which heralded the Revolution , no calm observer can reasonably ...
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... politics or ethics , we are at a loss to perceive what new view he has originated , or what point attend- ed with doubt his learning or his pene . tration has cleared up . In his treatise on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans , we ...
... politics or ethics , we are at a loss to perceive what new view he has originated , or what point attend- ed with doubt his learning or his pene . tration has cleared up . In his treatise on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans , we ...
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