Guesses at Truth: Second SeriesTaylor and Walton, 1848 - 383 pages |
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Page 52
... speaking of the decay of Europe , he adds : Westward the course of empire takes its way : The first four acts already past , A fifth shall close the drama with the day : ' Time's noblest offspring is the last . Hartley too , who , in ...
... speaking of the decay of Europe , he adds : Westward the course of empire takes its way : The first four acts already past , A fifth shall close the drama with the day : ' Time's noblest offspring is the last . Hartley too , who , in ...
Page 56
... speaking , a history , or become the agents and subjects in a series of diverse events , is , that , while each individual animal in a manner fulfills the whole purpose of its ex- istence , nothing of the sort can be predicated of any ...
... speaking , a history , or become the agents and subjects in a series of diverse events , is , that , while each individual animal in a manner fulfills the whole purpose of its ex- istence , nothing of the sort can be predicated of any ...
Page 81
... speak- ing derogatorily and slightingly of some other power . Nature is vilified , to magnify Milton and Raphael ; all the science from Archimedes down to Kepler and Galileo , for the sake of glorifying New- ton . In the same style is ...
... speak- ing derogatorily and slightingly of some other power . Nature is vilified , to magnify Milton and Raphael ; all the science from Archimedes down to Kepler and Galileo , for the sake of glorifying New- ton . In the same style is ...
Page 96
... speaking out .. a quality few esteem , and fewer aim at . One's first business in writing is to say what one has to ... speak home , popularly , and to the point , as we see in our own best writers , as well as in those of Greece and ...
... speaking out .. a quality few esteem , and fewer aim at . One's first business in writing is to say what one has to ... speak home , popularly , and to the point , as we see in our own best writers , as well as in those of Greece and ...
Page 119
... speak in scorn of the gypsies ; for that " they are what their birth And breeding suffers them to be , -Wild outcasts of humanity . " Now this may be very true ; and a new poem might have been written , giving utterance to this milder ...
... speak in scorn of the gypsies ; for that " they are what their birth And breeding suffers them to be , -Wild outcasts of humanity . " Now this may be very true ; and a new poem might have been written , giving utterance to this milder ...
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