Essays in a Series of LettersH.G. Bohn, 1863 - 342 pages |
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... continually dis- closed to his view , he is better qualified perhaps to describe the intrigues of a foreign court , or the progress of a foreign trade ; to depict the manners of the Italians , or the Turks ; to narrate the proceedings ...
... continually dis- closed to his view , he is better qualified perhaps to describe the intrigues of a foreign court , or the progress of a foreign trade ; to depict the manners of the Italians , or the Turks ; to narrate the proceedings ...
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... continually augments its own ascendency , by means of a faculty or fatality of finding out every thing , and attracting to itself every cause of impression , that is adapted to coalesce with it and strengthen it ; like the instinct o ...
... continually augments its own ascendency , by means of a faculty or fatality of finding out every thing , and attracting to itself every cause of impression , that is adapted to coalesce with it and strengthen it ; like the instinct o ...
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... continual presence they feel the importance ? Why is it possible to be surrounded with the intelligent Reality ... continually on the point of vanishing into nothing ? Why is this stupendous Power so unperceived and silent , while ...
... continual presence they feel the importance ? Why is it possible to be surrounded with the intelligent Reality ... continually on the point of vanishing into nothing ? Why is this stupendous Power so unperceived and silent , while ...
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... continually darting on us , and pervading us ; that we are exposed to the piercing inspection , compared to which the concentrated attention of all the beings in the universe besides , would be but as the powerless gaze of an infant ...
... continually darting on us , and pervading us ; that we are exposed to the piercing inspection , compared to which the concentrated attention of all the beings in the universe besides , would be but as the powerless gaze of an infant ...
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... continual certainty that all is still infinitely short of the reality . On the review of a character thus grown , in the exclusion of the religious influences , to the nature and perhaps ultimate state , the sentiment of pious bene ...
... continual certainty that all is still infinitely short of the reality . On the review of a character thus grown , in the exclusion of the religious influences , to the nature and perhaps ultimate state , the sentiment of pious bene ...
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