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... would probably have curtailed his episodes , smoothed his verses , and given
a more perfect , historic poem . The brilliant exploits of Cæsar and Pompey would
have been less frequently interrupted by a confusion of extraneous character ...
... would probably have curtailed his episodes , smoothed his verses , and given
a more perfect , historic poem . The brilliant exploits of Cæsar and Pompey would
have been less frequently interrupted by a confusion of extraneous character ...
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... understanding , or the feelings of his « heart ; " + yet we must have been “ very
dull to read soberly , and somewhat illnatured to read with a sneer rather , * Vol .
II , page 170 . + See page 184 , which probably alludes to the same writer , Vol .
... understanding , or the feelings of his « heart ; " + yet we must have been “ very
dull to read soberly , and somewhat illnatured to read with a sneer rather , * Vol .
II , page 170 . + See page 184 , which probably alludes to the same writer , Vol .
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... expected , that we shall pursue the reasoning through all its ramifications ; it
will be enough to state those heads of argument , which persons of inquiry will
know how to apply . The world was probably made at first in the same form , in
which ...
... expected , that we shall pursue the reasoning through all its ramifications ; it
will be enough to state those heads of argument , which persons of inquiry will
know how to apply . The world was probably made at first in the same form , in
which ...
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The tradition probably refers to the state of the country , when the first
postdiluvian colony settled there , It is well known , that animal bodies will float in
water , when putrefaction is begun . As the inundation advanced with in the
tropics , the ...
The tradition probably refers to the state of the country , when the first
postdiluvian colony settled there , It is well known , that animal bodies will float in
water , when putrefaction is begun . As the inundation advanced with in the
tropics , the ...
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From the permission to eat it following the burnt offering , it was probably coupled
with an injunction to dress it over the fire . The same thing was afterward carefully
attended to in the Mosaic law , where we meet with repeated prohibitions from ...
From the permission to eat it following the burnt offering , it was probably coupled
with an injunction to dress it over the fire . The same thing was afterward carefully
attended to in the Mosaic law , where we meet with repeated prohibitions from ...
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Page 91 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 91 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 93 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 78 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 92 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 93 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...
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| Title | The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2 |
| Contributor | Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University) |
| Publisher | W. Hilliard., 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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