Observations on the opinions of several writers on various historical, political, and metaphysical questions1817 |
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... fund of moral health and vigour . Many despotic go- vernments have for a season been " fanned by conquest's " crimson wing ; " have enjoyed short - lived torrents of success ; but it is the prerogative of free states alone to produce ...
... fund of moral health and vigour . Many despotic go- vernments have for a season been " fanned by conquest's " crimson wing ; " have enjoyed short - lived torrents of success ; but it is the prerogative of free states alone to produce ...
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... funds af- " ford a sort of entrepôt for capital , a deposit , where " it is naturally collected in an useful employment , " “ ( inasmuch as wars are necessary evils , ) ready at the " same time for other services , and capable of being ...
... funds af- " ford a sort of entrepôt for capital , a deposit , where " it is naturally collected in an useful employment , " “ ( inasmuch as wars are necessary evils , ) ready at the " same time for other services , and capable of being ...
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... funds afford no such deposit or receptacle for capital , whence it can be withdrawn at will , as the Reviewer imagines . 1. To speak of excessive wealth is as absurd as to speak of excessive virtue , or excessive happiness . Can we ...
... funds afford no such deposit or receptacle for capital , whence it can be withdrawn at will , as the Reviewer imagines . 1. To speak of excessive wealth is as absurd as to speak of excessive virtue , or excessive happiness . Can we ...
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... fund for the maintenance of labour compared with the demands upon it . If his moneyed wealth cannot yield him a revenue , it resem- bles the wealth of Midas , and savours of downright poverty . If , in consequence of a shower of ...
... fund for the maintenance of labour compared with the demands upon it . If his moneyed wealth cannot yield him a revenue , it resem- bles the wealth of Midas , and savours of downright poverty . If , in consequence of a shower of ...
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... fund for the maintenance of the labour that might be employed in providing articles of use or ornament , and supposes that population may go on so long as raw materials can be found whereon men may exercise their labour and skill . He ...
... fund for the maintenance of the labour that might be employed in providing articles of use or ornament , and supposes that population may go on so long as raw materials can be found whereon men may exercise their labour and skill . He ...
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305 페이지 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
221 페이지 - Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
223 페이지 - I answer, this extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them ; the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression and beauty of oratorial numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
280 페이지 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews, 3 especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
263 페이지 - You mean to say that the errors of Grammarians have arisen from supposing all words to be immediately either the signs of things or the signs of ideas; whereas in fact many words are merely abbreviations employed for dispatch, and are the signs of other words.
163 페이지 - ... not be a single period when the mass of the people could be said to be free from distress, either directly or indirectly, for want of food.
222 페이지 - He, who in earnest studies o'er his part, Will find true nature cling about his heart. The modes of grief are not included all In the white handkerchief and mournful drawl ; A single look more marks the internal woe, Than all the windings of the lengthen'd Oh.
237 페이지 - ... discovered; and the more time a man is obliged to spend in ascertaining what his predecessors have already established, the less he will have to bestow in adding to its amount. The time, however, is of less consequence; but the habits of mind that are formed by walking patiently, humbly, and passively in the paths that have been traced by others, are the very habits that disqualify us for vigorous and independent excursions of our own.
236 페이지 - More knowledge they prob'ably will have,-*-as we have undoubtedly more knowledge than our ancestors had two hundred years ago ; but for vigour of understanding, or pleasure in the exercise of it, we must beg leave to demur. The more there is already known, the less there remains to be discovered ; and the more time a man is obliged to spend in ascertaining what his predecessors have already established, the less he will have to bestow in adding to its amount. The time, however, is of less consequence...
190 페이지 - ... in which though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed right it is not requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your thoughts, that particular quantity it was appointed to stand for.