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... called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his Niobe , or the blushes of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book on the ...
... called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his Niobe , or the blushes of his Aurora . If Shakespeare had written a book on the ...
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... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
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... called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can theness , and its slavery to our freedom . These warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and ...
... called the Great Rebellion . In one respect , only , we think , can theness , and its slavery to our freedom . These warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and ...
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... called without a blush , the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the bigot , and the ...
... called without a blush , the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the bigot , and the ...
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... called into action . The Carlovingian sovereigns were too imbe- cile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It was ...
... called into action . The Carlovingian sovereigns were too imbe- cile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and the Empire . It was ...
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