The New-York Review, Volumen6George Dearborn & Company, 1839 |
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... feel that he has practised much of self denial in contract- ing his remarks , and offering comprehensive generalities in- stead of diffusive particulars . A man who has waded through a folio which very few living people have ever opened ...
... feel that he has practised much of self denial in contract- ing his remarks , and offering comprehensive generalities in- stead of diffusive particulars . A man who has waded through a folio which very few living people have ever opened ...
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... feel ashamed of youthful prejudices and amusements ; it constantly reconsiders former principles and ideas , and turns over new leaves of wisdom . In the period now before us , our path is lighter and more familiar . Its honored names ...
... feel ashamed of youthful prejudices and amusements ; it constantly reconsiders former principles and ideas , and turns over new leaves of wisdom . In the period now before us , our path is lighter and more familiar . Its honored names ...
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... feeling or capacity in human nature . The moral philosophy of the period is comprised in a very miscellaneous collection of trea- tises . Then casuistry piled up its hair - splitting absurdities , which were mostly confined to the ...
... feeling or capacity in human nature . The moral philosophy of the period is comprised in a very miscellaneous collection of trea- tises . Then casuistry piled up its hair - splitting absurdities , which were mostly confined to the ...
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... feel the inestimable value of com- mitting to the memory , in the prime of its power , what it will easily receive and indelibly retain . I know not indeed whether an edu- cation that deals much with poetry , such as is still usual in ...
... feel the inestimable value of com- mitting to the memory , in the prime of its power , what it will easily receive and indelibly retain . I know not indeed whether an edu- cation that deals much with poetry , such as is still usual in ...
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... feeling , of narrow judgment and wrong con- struction , which assures us that we may safely rest in the opinions advanced . There are likewise many eloquent pas- sages , much philosophical depth of criticism and estimate , and some few ...
... feeling , of narrow judgment and wrong con- struction , which assures us that we may safely rest in the opinions advanced . There are likewise many eloquent pas- sages , much philosophical depth of criticism and estimate , and some few ...
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Página 67 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Página 124 - A Popular Essay on subjects of Penal Law, and on uninterrupted Solitary Confinement at Labor, as contradistinguished to Solitary Confinement at Night and Joint Labor by Day, in a letter to John Bacon, Esquire, President of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of Public Prisons.
Página 413 - When the college and appurtenances shall have been constructed, and supplied with plain and suitable furniture, and books, philosophical and experimental instruments and apparatus, and all other matters needful to carry my general design into execution ; the income issues and profits of so much...
Página 464 - Visits to Remarkable Places : Old Halls, Battle-Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By WILLIAM HOWITT. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with Wood Engravings, 25s. The Rural Life of England.
Página 10 - Rome itself, imposing, unbroken, unchangeable, radiating in equal expansion to every part of the earth, and directing its convergent curves to heaven. Round this were numbered, at unequal heights, the Baptistery, with its gates...
Página 66 - Tolerations of divers religions, or of one religion in segregant shapes. He that willingly assents to the last, if he examines his heart by daylight, his conscience will tell him, he is either an atheist, or an heretic, or an hypocrite, or at best a captive to some lust. Poly-piety is the greatest impiety in the world.
Página 214 - For in truth she is a Church beside herself, abounding in noble gifts and rightful titles, but unable to use them religiously ; crafty, obstinate, wilful, malicious, cruel, unnatural, as madmen are. Or rather she may be said to resemble a demoniac...
Página 174 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 233 - Service, which Gavanti describes as being of very great antiquity. These usages certainly now do but sanction and encourage that direct worship of the Blessed Virgin and the Saints, which is the great practical offence of the Latin Church, and so are a serious evil ; but it is worth pointing out, that, as on the one hand they have more claim to be considered an integral part of the service, so on the other, more can be said towards their justification than for those addresses which are now especially...
Página 9 - In a villa overhanging the towers of Florence, on the steep slope of that lofty hill crowned by the mother city, the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Landino, and Politian at his side, he delighted his hours of leisure with the beautiful visions of Platonic philosophy, for which the summer stillness of an Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment.