De Quincey's Writings: Narrative and miscellaneous papers. 1853Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... present perverse generation , will be likely to misconceive its object . Kant's purpose was , not to ascertain how many years the Earth had lived : a million of years , more or less , made very little difference to him . What he wished ...
... present perverse generation , will be likely to misconceive its object . Kant's purpose was , not to ascertain how many years the Earth had lived : a million of years , more or less , made very little difference to him . What he wished ...
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... present , perhaps she will be so in future . Old ? if she is not old at this moment , perhaps she has been old , and has a fair chance of becoming so again . In fact , she is a Phoenix that is known to have secret processes for ...
... present , perhaps she will be so in future . Old ? if she is not old at this moment , perhaps she has been old , and has a fair chance of becoming so again . In fact , she is a Phoenix that is known to have secret processes for ...
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... present to their organs . An animal desire , or a deep animal hostility , may render sensible a distance which else would not be sensible ; but not render it sensible as a distance . Hence perhaps is explained , and not out of any self ...
... present to their organs . An animal desire , or a deep animal hostility , may render sensible a distance which else would not be sensible ; but not render it sensible as a distance . Hence perhaps is explained , and not out of any self ...
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... present themselves to our experience at this day . That was a negative confirmation ; by which I mean , that , had their views failed in the hands of Laplace , then they were proved to be false ; but , not failing , they were not ...
... present themselves to our experience at this day . That was a negative confirmation ; by which I mean , that , had their views failed in the hands of Laplace , then they were proved to be false ; but , not failing , they were not ...
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... present professor , Dr. Nichol ; in the deep meditative style of his mind seeking for rest , yet placed in conflict for ever with the tumultuous necessity in him for travelling along the line of revolutionary thought , and following it ...
... present professor , Dr. Nichol ; in the deep meditative style of his mind seeking for rest , yet placed in conflict for ever with the tumultuous necessity in him for travelling along the line of revolutionary thought , and following it ...
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Page 145 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 152 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 79 - Je me dis : Je m'en vais jeter cette pierre contre l'arbre qui est vis-à-vis' de moi : si je le touche, signe de salut; si je le manque , signe de damnation. Tout en disant ainsi je jette ma pierre d'une main tremblante et avec un horrible battement de cœur , mais si heureusement , qu'elle va frapper au beau milieu de l'arbre ; ce qui véritablement n'était pas difficile, car j'avais eu soin de le choisir fort gros et fort près. Depuis lors je n'ai plus douté de mon salut.
Page 209 - God's most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter, Yea, Carnage is his daughter!
Page 190 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes concurring with the great physical movement in locomotion and social intercourse from the gigantic power of steam. At the opening of such a crisis, had no third movement...
Page 42 - Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man aches with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave from the persecutions of the infinite; for end, I see, there is none.
Page 41 - ... by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ! Above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over...
Page 80 - ... eu soin de le choisir fort gros et fort près. Depuis lors je n'ai plus douté de mon salut. Je ne sais, en me rappelant ce trait, si je dois rire ou gémir sur moimême.
Page 20 - With scent of living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Page 40 - God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, — "Come thou hither, and see the glory of my house." And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only touch not with any change his human heart — the heart that weeps and trembles.