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... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are con- vinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and ...
... moral and intellectual qualities . Nor , we are con- vinced , will the severest of our readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and ...
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... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Hel- vetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
... moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest , like Hel- vetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called ...
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... moral world . Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of ex- ternal objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
... moral world . Neither Theocritus nor Ariosto had a finer or a more healthful sense of the pleasantness of ex- ternal objects , or loved better to luxuriate amidst sunbeams and flowers , the songs of nightingales , the juice of summer ...
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... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more vio- lent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be pro ...
... moral character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more vio- lent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The vio- lence of those outrages will always be pro ...
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... moral and intellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the " Oh , ye mistook ! Ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast . Without the rod reversed , And backward mutters of dissevering power ...
... moral and intellectual slavery , and the benefits which would result from the liberty of the " Oh , ye mistook ! Ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast . Without the rod reversed , And backward mutters of dissevering power ...
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