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Page iv
... ideas on representation of the Beautiful 96 97 98 48-54 . His dark and gloomy philosophy of life and action 55-8 . Its relation to the Christian dogma 100 105 • 59. Close of his life . 60-2 . The Jesuit Scarpa's account of his death 109 ...
... ideas on representation of the Beautiful 96 97 98 48-54 . His dark and gloomy philosophy of life and action 55-8 . Its relation to the Christian dogma 100 105 • 59. Close of his life . 60-2 . The Jesuit Scarpa's account of his death 109 ...
Page viii
... ideas from his first manhood onwards 288 34. His memory . 290 35-7 . How far chargeable with partisanship 291 38 , 39. His style 40-42 . Superlative in the luminous quality . 294 295 PAGE 43 , 44. Defective appreciation of opponents ...
... ideas from his first manhood onwards 288 34. His memory . 290 35-7 . How far chargeable with partisanship 291 38 , 39. His style 40-42 . Superlative in the luminous quality . 294 295 PAGE 43 , 44. Defective appreciation of opponents ...
Page ix
... 22. Fluctuations of opinion 358 23-5 . Points of his religious character . 358 26 , 27. Macleod as an ecclesiastical tactician 360 28. Succinct idea of the man . 362 I BLANCO WHITE . * 1845 . 1. THIS is CONTENTS . ix.
... 22. Fluctuations of opinion 358 23-5 . Points of his religious character . 358 26 , 27. Macleod as an ecclesiastical tactician 360 28. Succinct idea of the man . 362 I BLANCO WHITE . * 1845 . 1. THIS is CONTENTS . ix.
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... ideas . " It is material to apprehend clearly this the first change in the direction of his course and we remark , that in relating it in 1830 , he says , " his mind hit instinctively upon the only expedient that could release him from ...
... ideas . " It is material to apprehend clearly this the first change in the direction of his course and we remark , that in relating it in 1830 , he says , " his mind hit instinctively upon the only expedient that could release him from ...
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... idea of God , he says , is an- thropomorphic , it is gross idolatry . † Nay , he repeatedly laments the prevalence and power of superstition even among the Unitarians . All this affords a certain ground for thankfulness . It all tends ...
... idea of God , he says , is an- thropomorphic , it is gross idolatry . † Nay , he repeatedly laments the prevalence and power of superstition even among the Unitarians . All this affords a certain ground for thankfulness . It all tends ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 210 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 210 - If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind ; To see those joys the sons of Pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Page 139 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.