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... characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feel- ings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co- operated with the circumstances under which ...
... characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feel- ings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co- operated with the circumstances under which ...
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... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the ...
... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the ...
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... character of a writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable ...
... character of a writer , from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable ...
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... character of an individual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all human relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call ...
... character of an individual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all human relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call ...
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... character of a people . We de- plore the outrages which accompany revolu- tions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was ne- cessary . The violence of those outrages will always be ...
... character of a people . We de- plore the outrages which accompany revolu- tions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was ne- cessary . The violence of those outrages will always be ...
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Page 401 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Page 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrowminded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father! A good husband! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood ! We charge him with having...
Page 287 - We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 16 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 16 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious...
Page 65 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Page 278 - Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven...
Page 133 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.
Page 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the government dr this — the people will assuredly...
Page 38 - ... then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other.— Anybody may see he is an actor.