The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... : Cartwright : confu- tation . V. Cartwright ; party - spirit : Jacobins and Anti - Jac- obins : injudicious treatment of the former by the latter . Personal retro- spect . Essay VI . pp . 203–207 X TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... : Cartwright : confu- tation . V. Cartwright ; party - spirit : Jacobins and Anti - Jac- obins : injudicious treatment of the former by the latter . Personal retro- spect . Essay VI . pp . 203–207 X TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... latter in distinction from those emotions which arise in well - ordered minds , from the perception of truth or falsehood , virtue or vice : -emotions , which are always pre- ceded by thought , and linked with improvement . Again , all ...
... latter in distinction from those emotions which arise in well - ordered minds , from the perception of truth or falsehood , virtue or vice : -emotions , which are always pre- ceded by thought , and linked with improvement . Again , all ...
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... latter a most difficult and laborious effort ; nor from himself , that to require it often or for any continuance of time , is incom- patible with the nature of the present publication , even were it less incongruous than it ...
... latter a most difficult and laborious effort ; nor from himself , that to require it often or for any continuance of time , is incom- patible with the nature of the present publication , even were it less incongruous than it ...
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... latter , and the latter on many occasions as beneficial ( and consequently meritorious ) as the former . I feel it incumbent on me , therefore , to place immediately be- fore my readers in the fullest and clearest light , the whole ques ...
... latter , and the latter on many occasions as beneficial ( and consequently meritorious ) as the former . I feel it incumbent on me , therefore , to place immediately be- fore my readers in the fullest and clearest light , the whole ques ...
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... latter part of the proposition , which has drawn me into this discussion , that , I mean , in which the morality of intentional falsehood is asserted , may safely be trusted to the reader's own moral sense . Is it a groundless ...
... latter part of the proposition , which has drawn me into this discussion , that , I mean , in which the morality of intentional falsehood is asserted , may safely be trusted to the reader's own moral sense . Is it a groundless ...
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Page 46 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 461 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized : High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble, like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 415 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 77 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 69 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 342 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 22 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake.
Page 77 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 453 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...