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... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
الصفحة 13
... truth cease to conflict , and fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind submission . There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces - and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell ...
... truth cease to conflict , and fury , it was because they had exacted an equally blind submission . There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces - and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell ...
الصفحة 18
... truth into those dark and infected recesses in which no light has ever shone . But it was the choice and the pleasure of Milton to penetrate the noisome vapours and to brave the terrible ex plosion . Those who most disapprove of his ...
... truth into those dark and infected recesses in which no light has ever shone . But it was the choice and the pleasure of Milton to penetrate the noisome vapours and to brave the terrible ex plosion . Those who most disapprove of his ...
الصفحة 26
... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
الصفحة 32
... truth , Livy is not a historian on whom much reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed consider- able means of information . And his first De- cade , to which Machiavelli has confined him- self , is scarcely ...
... truth , Livy is not a historian on whom much reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed consider- able means of information . And his first De- cade , to which Machiavelli has confined him- self , is scarcely ...
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الصفحة 401 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
الصفحة 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrowminded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father! A good husband! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood ! We charge him with having...
الصفحة 287 - We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 16 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
الصفحة 16 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious...
الصفحة 65 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
الصفحة 278 - Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven...
الصفحة 133 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.
الصفحة 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the government dr this — the people will assuredly...
الصفحة 38 - ... then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other.— Anybody may see he is an actor.