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... Mental attitude as to Religion 283 26 , 27. As to theology 284 28. A child of his age 286 29 Contrasted with Scott 286 30. Disinclined to Carlyle 287 31-3 . Singular coherency of his mind and ideas from his first manhood onwards 288 34 ...
... Mental attitude as to Religion 283 26 , 27. As to theology 284 28. A child of his age 286 29 Contrasted with Scott 286 30. Disinclined to Carlyle 287 31-3 . Singular coherency of his mind and ideas from his first manhood onwards 288 34 ...
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... mental history ; and it embraces his external fortunes , chiefly as they were de- pendent upon that history . His literary tastes , and his political labours , might justly deserve some detailed notice ; but all the space that we can ...
... mental history ; and it embraces his external fortunes , chiefly as they were de- pendent upon that history . His literary tastes , and his political labours , might justly deserve some detailed notice ; but all the space that we can ...
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... mental rebellion . The system of in- struction was odious to him ; and " a great love of know- ledge , and an equally great hatred of established errors , were suddenly developed in his mind . " His instructors denied the possibility of ...
... mental rebellion . The system of in- struction was odious to him ; and " a great love of know- ledge , and an equally great hatred of established errors , were suddenly developed in his mind . " His instructors denied the possibility of ...
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... mental freedom and a residence in England . 7. On arriving here , he had , of course , difficulties and * Life , I. 117 and 132 . † Doblado , pp . 120-2 . Life , I. 109 ; and ' Evidence against Catholicism , ' p . 6 . § Doblado , pp ...
... mental freedom and a residence in England . 7. On arriving here , he had , of course , difficulties and * Life , I. 117 and 132 . † Doblado , pp . 120-2 . Life , I. 109 ; and ' Evidence against Catholicism , ' p . 6 . § Doblado , pp ...
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... mental speculation , but quite incapable of deriving nourishment from what he devoured with an appetite so ravenous . So that he pined more and more , from year to year : and we can scarcely measure the * III . p . 66. † III . p . 78. I ...
... mental speculation , but quite incapable of deriving nourishment from what he devoured with an appetite so ravenous . So that he pined more and more , from year to year : and we can scarcely measure the * III . p . 66. † III . p . 78. I ...
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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.