Speculations literary and philosophicA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Pàgina 42 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Pàgina 304 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Pàgina 29 - But ask not to what doctors I apply ; Sworn to no master, of no sect am I : As drives the storm, at any door I knock, And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke...
Pàgina 8 - ... summos posse viros et magna exempla daturos vervecum in patria crassoque sub aere nasci.
Pàgina 49 - We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow.
Pàgina 69 - Yet, at p. 238, Sir James himself makes it the praise 1 of a modern writer that he professes to have treated the moral affections " rather physiologically than ethically,"- — as parts of our mental constitution, not as involving the fulfilment or violation of duties.
Pàgina 138 - The means, which nature employs to bring about the development of all the tendencies she has laid in man, is the antagonism of these tendencies in the social state — no farther however than to that point at which this antagonism becomes the cause of social arrangements founded in law.
Pàgina 117 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful, and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur. I must add, however, that in fineness and compass of understanding, our English philosopher appears to me to have greatly the advantage. In another point they agree, — both are men of infinite titlepages.
Pàgina 216 - I know it," answered Wilhelm with a smile, and holding out his hand. "I accept it then," said she, and made a movement with her right hand, as if meaning to take hold of his: but instantly she darted it into her pocket, pulled out her dagger quick as lightning, and scored with the edge and point of it across his hand. He hastily drew it back, but the blood was already running down. "One must mark you men rather sharply, if one would have you take heed," cried she with a wild mirth, which soon passed...
Pàgina 324 - I " wish that you would consider that, if any of our men say " salvation may be had in your Church, it is not for the " goodness of your new proposition " (ie for the additions or changes interwoven with Protestantism or Primitive Christianity), " but only because you do keep so much of that " which is our religion that upon the confidence of THAT we " hope well concerning you. And we do not hope anything " at all that is good of you or your religion as it distinguishes " from us and ours : we hope...