"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... lived amidst the formed , or the French prophets , as we called them w they came over us , and in whom Sir Isaac Newton than half believed ; these testified that they heard an singing in the air , while our philosopher was convned he ...
... lived amidst the formed , or the French prophets , as we called them w they came over us , and in whom Sir Isaac Newton than half believed ; these testified that they heard an singing in the air , while our philosopher was convned he ...
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... lived without study ; by them I lose many days in every month ' - the fact is , that Bayle had entirely given up every sort of recreation except that delicious inebriation of his faculties , as we may term it for those who know what it ...
... lived without study ; by them I lose many days in every month ' - the fact is , that Bayle had entirely given up every sort of recreation except that delicious inebriation of his faculties , as we may term it for those who know what it ...
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... lived , in the same uninterrupted habits of composition ; for with bis dying hand , and nearly speechless , he sent a fresh proof to the printer ! CICERO VIEWED AS A COLLECTOR . " Mr Fuseli , in the introduction to the second part of ...
... lived , in the same uninterrupted habits of composition ; for with bis dying hand , and nearly speechless , he sent a fresh proof to the printer ! CICERO VIEWED AS A COLLECTOR . " Mr Fuseli , in the introduction to the second part of ...
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... lived to realize his project in the reformation of art , and witnessed the school of Bologna tlourishing afresh when all the others had fallen . The great masters of this Such last epoch of Italian painting were their pupils . were ...
... lived to realize his project in the reformation of art , and witnessed the school of Bologna tlourishing afresh when all the others had fallen . The great masters of this Such last epoch of Italian painting were their pupils . were ...
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... lived on Robertson : and as Professor Dugald Stewart observos , his curiosity has seldom led him into any path where the genius and industry of his predecessor had not previously cleared the way . ' It is for this reason some authors ...
... lived on Robertson : and as Professor Dugald Stewart observos , his curiosity has seldom led him into any path where the genius and industry of his predecessor had not previously cleared the way . ' It is for this reason some authors ...
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Стр. 243 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Стр. 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish ; By a power to thee unknown, Thou canst never be alone ; Thou art wrapt as with a shroud, Thou art gathered in a cloud ; And for ever shalt thou dwell In the spirit of this spell.
Стр. 301 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Стр. 82 - ... due observation, I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking — of tavern or ale-house drinking.
Стр. 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Стр. 321 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Стр. 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Стр. 23 - Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But, after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence.
Стр. 18 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Стр. 407 - my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.