Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Complete in One VolumePhillips, Sampson and Company, 1857 - 568 pages |
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... Diderot Foreign Quarterly Review . - No . XXII . 1833 . ON HISTORY AGAIN ON Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VII . No. XLI . 1833 . Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VIII . No. XLIII . 1833 . - 398 422 · : 426 433 · 451 Fraser's Magazine . - Vol ...
... Diderot Foreign Quarterly Review . - No . XXII . 1833 . ON HISTORY AGAIN ON Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VII . No. XLI . 1833 . Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VIII . No. XLIII . 1833 . - 398 422 · : 426 433 · 451 Fraser's Magazine . - Vol ...
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... Diderot and David Hume , there is not one of a more com- pact and rigid intellectual structure ; who more distinctly knows what he is aiming at , or with more gracefulness , vigour , and pre- cision sets it forth to his readers . He ...
... Diderot and David Hume , there is not one of a more com- pact and rigid intellectual structure ; who more distinctly knows what he is aiming at , or with more gracefulness , vigour , and pre- cision sets it forth to his readers . He ...
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... Diderot ; with all the liveliness , he has not the soft elegance ; with more than the wit , he has but a small portion of the wisdom that belonged to Fonte- nelle as in real sensibility , so in the delinea- tion of it , in pathos ...
... Diderot ; with all the liveliness , he has not the soft elegance ; with more than the wit , he has but a small portion of the wisdom that belonged to Fonte- nelle as in real sensibility , so in the delinea- tion of it , in pathos ...
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... Diderot that there is a Godlike in human affairs ; that and Hume , though all thought has been of a God not only made us and beholds us , but is skeptico - metaphysical texture , so far as there in us and around us ; that the Age of ...
... Diderot that there is a Godlike in human affairs ; that and Hume , though all thought has been of a God not only made us and beholds us , but is skeptico - metaphysical texture , so far as there in us and around us ; that the Age of ...
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... Diderot , humanized Philosophe , didactic singer , march - of - intellect men , and other " impudent varlets " ( that would never put their own finger to the work ; ) and hear what " compliments " they uttered.- D. T. for some time , in ...
... Diderot , humanized Philosophe , didactic singer , march - of - intellect men , and other " impudent varlets " ( that would never put their own finger to the work ; ) and hear what " compliments " they uttered.- D. T. for some time , in ...
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Page 101 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain : Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Page 333 - I then kissed her. She told me that to part was the greatest pain that she had ever felt, and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place. I expressed with swelled eyes, and great emotion of tenderness, the same hopes. We kissed and parted. I humbly hope to meet again, and to part no more...
Page 101 - I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word ; otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished man. As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Ferguson's, •where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation,...
Page 95 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Page 341 - There is but one temple in the Universe,' says the devout Novalis, ' and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
Page 291 - Of our Thinking, we might say, it is but the mere upper surface that we shape into articulate Thoughts; — underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse, lies the region of meditation; here, in its quiet mysterious depths, dwells what vital force is in us ; here, if aught is to be created, and not merely manufactured and communicated, must the work go on.
Page 182 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word...
Page 101 - I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my 5 father's.
Page 334 - His dress was a rusty brown morning suit, a pair of old shoes by way of slippers, a little shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head, and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his breeches hanging loose. A considerable crowd of people gathered round, and were not a little struck by this singular appearance.
Page 313 - BOSWELL/ round his hat ; and in short, if you will, lived no day of his life without doing and saying more than one pretentious ineptitude : all this unhappily is evident as the sun at noon. The very look of Boswell seems to have signified so much. In that cocked nose, cocked partly in triumph over his weaker fellow-creatures, partly to...