American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... fact , this is the only check by which society in every age has been saved from anarchy , as its natural predisposition is in favour of change - a centrifugal force which , when speculation is in any degree free , can hardly be ...
... fact , this is the only check by which society in every age has been saved from anarchy , as its natural predisposition is in favour of change - a centrifugal force which , when speculation is in any degree free , can hardly be ...
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... fact , ) without recurring to Rome or Greece , or both , for most of the nice shades of thought which mingle and coalesce in the full meaning of every phrase that is uttered . Thence is it , that even as a hawk fleeth not high with one ...
... fact , ) without recurring to Rome or Greece , or both , for most of the nice shades of thought which mingle and coalesce in the full meaning of every phrase that is uttered . Thence is it , that even as a hawk fleeth not high with one ...
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... fact of his ignorance of the learned tongues , at least of the Latin , and say with Schlegel , that he was a scholar . He rose infinitely above the pedantry of his contemporaries , but there is internal evidence which every read- er of ...
... fact of his ignorance of the learned tongues , at least of the Latin , and say with Schlegel , that he was a scholar . He rose infinitely above the pedantry of his contemporaries , but there is internal evidence which every read- er of ...
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... fact , if it can retain any evidence of the poetic temperament . Aside from the limited diffusion of truth , and connected with it , the reason why heroic poetry succeeded among the ancients , was the credence given by the mass of ...
... fact , if it can retain any evidence of the poetic temperament . Aside from the limited diffusion of truth , and connected with it , the reason why heroic poetry succeeded among the ancients , was the credence given by the mass of ...
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... facts ; and if facts were all we wanted , they might be deemed sufficient . But unless our previous argument has been lament- ably deficient , a simple barren knowledge of events furnishes but a small portion of the inducements to the ...
... facts ; and if facts were all we wanted , they might be deemed sufficient . But unless our previous argument has been lament- ably deficient , a simple barren knowledge of events furnishes but a small portion of the inducements to the ...
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