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... Believe with Lord Monboddo that man sprang from an ape , or with yon ' learned divine that he descends from the angels , he is still - a man .'-- Mackenzie , 1781 . ' If a company keeps a steam fire engine , the firemen need not be ...
... Believe with Lord Monboddo that man sprang from an ape , or with yon ' learned divine that he descends from the angels , he is still - a man .'-- Mackenzie , 1781 . ' If a company keeps a steam fire engine , the firemen need not be ...
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... believe they can surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said they are as bad . We must do them this justice , that they conceal it better ; 6 A MAN'S ...
... believe they can surpass others ; and although women , from their greater subjection to society , are less offensive in their egotism , it is said they are as bad . We must do them this justice , that they conceal it better ; 6 A MAN'S ...
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... believe themselves fit representatives of Hamlet , Cæsar , Brutus , and King Cambyses ? As the vanity of Sir Godfrey Kneller , in an anecdote , throws a light upon his class , so does one of Cooke , the actor , illuminate his Kneller ...
... believe themselves fit representatives of Hamlet , Cæsar , Brutus , and King Cambyses ? As the vanity of Sir Godfrey Kneller , in an anecdote , throws a light upon his class , so does one of Cooke , the actor , illuminate his Kneller ...
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... believe that , what an alteration would there be . It is the men who are reduced to ' first principles , ' who begin with nothing , who are untrammelled by false hopes -begot by falser friends - who make their way . Were we to be as ...
... believe that , what an alteration would there be . It is the men who are reduced to ' first principles , ' who begin with nothing , who are untrammelled by false hopes -begot by falser friends - who make their way . Were we to be as ...
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... believe in good young men . The very way to be thought really bad , is to appear to be good . These excellent young heroes produced a revolution of feeling . With something like a relief we turn from the sentimental goodness of Joseph ...
... believe in good young men . The very way to be thought really bad , is to appear to be good . These excellent young heroes produced a revolution of feeling . With something like a relief we turn from the sentimental goodness of Joseph ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.