American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... favour , because he vouches the law of the past . We appeal to experience , from no servile respect to antiquity , but because we add the sanction of other men's wisdom to our own reasoning . The innovator , therefore , must always be ...
... favour , because he vouches the law of the past . We appeal to experience , from no servile respect to antiquity , but because we add the sanction of other men's wisdom to our own reasoning . The innovator , therefore , must always be ...
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... favour of their acquisition . That man would acquire a singular knowledge of the moon , who viewed her only at the full ; and he would be curiously fitted to investigate human nature , who always examined mankind under the influence of ...
... favour of their acquisition . That man would acquire a singular knowledge of the moon , who viewed her only at the full ; and he would be curiously fitted to investigate human nature , who always examined mankind under the influence of ...
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... favour of the few , without redound- ing to the benefit of the many . All the arts of peace improve beneath its influence . Industry revives and flourishes as it leads the way to new wants . The general mind advances , as the means of ...
... favour of the few , without redound- ing to the benefit of the many . All the arts of peace improve beneath its influence . Industry revives and flourishes as it leads the way to new wants . The general mind advances , as the means of ...
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... favour of the ancien régime , which would have hampered the efforts of less daring spirits , or attempts in the more elevated departments of poetry , and secure in his influence over a portion of the community standing less in awe than ...
... favour of the ancien régime , which would have hampered the efforts of less daring spirits , or attempts in the more elevated departments of poetry , and secure in his influence over a portion of the community standing less in awe than ...
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... favoured the enemy . As the war continued , after the first brunt of the contest had been endured , and the chances of a successful issue appeared more probable ; the whole country being compelled to the use of arms , and supplying ...
... favoured the enemy . As the war continued , after the first brunt of the contest had been endured , and the chances of a successful issue appeared more probable ; the whole country being compelled to the use of arms , and supplying ...
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