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... so many centuries , made no effort to burst her disgraceful shackles , and to assert the dignity of human nature . When , however , Petrarch had " once formed the taste of his countrymen , and diverted 26 THE MINIATURE .
... so many centuries , made no effort to burst her disgraceful shackles , and to assert the dignity of human nature . When , however , Petrarch had " once formed the taste of his countrymen , and diverted 26 THE MINIATURE .
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... natural transition , are desirous of possessing what they admire . The Romans had long constituted themselves an independent state ; had risen to no small de- gree of power , before they attempted the con- quest of Greece ; still ...
... natural transition , are desirous of possessing what they admire . The Romans had long constituted themselves an independent state ; had risen to no small de- gree of power , before they attempted the con- quest of Greece ; still ...
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... nature's curse , Or Fate's decree , degenerate into worse . DRYDEN . HAVING already examined the slow progress of nations to civilization , and the various obsta- cles or impediments which the weakness of hu- man nature , or attendant ...
... nature's curse , Or Fate's decree , degenerate into worse . DRYDEN . HAVING already examined the slow progress of nations to civilization , and the various obsta- cles or impediments which the weakness of hu- man nature , or attendant ...
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... nature or the common good of the universe have sanctioned , immediate ruin and perdition have succeeded . In every period of antiquity , some particular nation has had the evident superiority over the rest of the world , but this summit ...
... nature or the common good of the universe have sanctioned , immediate ruin and perdition have succeeded . In every period of antiquity , some particular nation has had the evident superiority over the rest of the world , but this summit ...
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... natural miseries of the soil or climate , Africa seems , for the crimes of her sons , to have inherited the malediction of nature , while savage barbarism , robbery , and ty- ranny , are become the characteristics of a coun try THE ...
... natural miseries of the soil or climate , Africa seems , for the crimes of her sons , to have inherited the malediction of nature , while savage barbarism , robbery , and ty- ranny , are become the characteristics of a coun try THE ...
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Page 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Page 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Page 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Page 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Page 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Page 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Page 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;