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... doth not , like moral reasoning , admit degrees of evidence , its perfec- tion , in point of eloquence , if so uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Perspicuity here results entirely from ...
... doth not , like moral reasoning , admit degrees of evidence , its perfec- tion , in point of eloquence , if so uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Perspicuity here results entirely from ...
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... doth not require to its production , as the passions generally do , any reflex view of motives or tendencies , or of any relation either to private in- terest , or to the good of others ; and ought therefore to be numbered among those ...
... doth not require to its production , as the passions generally do , any reflex view of motives or tendencies , or of any relation either to private in- terest , or to the good of others ; and ought therefore to be numbered among those ...
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... doth not hold inverse- ly ; one may explain with clearness , and prove with energy , who is incapable of the sublime , the pathetic , and the vehement : besides , this power of persuasion , or , as Cicero calls it , " Posse voluntates ...
... doth not hold inverse- ly ; one may explain with clearness , and prove with energy , who is incapable of the sublime , the pathetic , and the vehement : besides , this power of persuasion , or , as Cicero calls it , " Posse voluntates ...
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... doth not constitute a differ- ent species , as the repugnancy in that case will always be tainly a perversion of the word from its ordinary sense , through an excessive defer- ence to the manner and idiom of our ingenious neighbours ...
... doth not constitute a differ- ent species , as the repugnancy in that case will always be tainly a perversion of the word from its ordinary sense , through an excessive defer- ence to the manner and idiom of our ingenious neighbours ...
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... doth not so much arise from the com- parison they contain of the dropsy to a miser , ( which falls under the description that immediately succeeds , ) as from the union of contraries they present to the imagination , poverty in the ...
... doth not so much arise from the com- parison they contain of the dropsy to a miser , ( which falls under the description that immediately succeeds , ) as from the union of contraries they present to the imagination , poverty in the ...
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Page 362 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 386 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 302 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 333 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 257 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 420 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 335 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Page 327 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.