The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... less incongruous than it unfortunately is with the present habits and pursuits of Englishmen . Accordingly I shall be on my guard to make the essays as few as possible , which would require from a well - educated reader any energy of ...
... less incongruous than it unfortunately is with the present habits and pursuits of Englishmen . Accordingly I shall be on my guard to make the essays as few as possible , which would require from a well - educated reader any energy of ...
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... less suited to a periodical essay . This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a ...
... less suited to a periodical essay . This fault I am now endeavoring to correct ; though I can never so far sacrifice my judgment to the desire of being immediately popular , as to cast my sentences in the French moulds , or affect a ...
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... less respected , more or less worthy of respect . * Lastly , it must be admitted as a just imputation of presumption * Had the author of the Divine Legation of Moses more skilfully appro- priated his coarse eloquence of abuse , his ...
... less respected , more or less worthy of respect . * Lastly , it must be admitted as a just imputation of presumption * Had the author of the Divine Legation of Moses more skilfully appro- priated his coarse eloquence of abuse , his ...
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... less dangerous than false- hood , sounds less offensively at the first hearing , only because it hides its deformity in an equivocation , or double meaning of the word truth . What may be rightly affirmed of truth , used as synonymous ...
... less dangerous than false- hood , sounds less offensively at the first hearing , only because it hides its deformity in an equivocation , or double meaning of the word truth . What may be rightly affirmed of truth , used as synonymous ...
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... less does it permit us to avail ourselves of the causes of this impracticability in order to procure nominal prose- lytes , each of whom will have a different , and all a false , con- ception of those notions that were to be conveyed ...
... less does it permit us to avail ourselves of the causes of this impracticability in order to procure nominal prose- lytes , each of whom will have a different , and all a false , con- ception of those notions that were to be conveyed ...
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Seite 46 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Seite 461 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized : High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble, like a guilty thing surprised...
Seite 415 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Seite 77 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Seite 69 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Seite 342 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Seite 22 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake.
Seite 77 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Seite 453 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...