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Page 8
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important principle . 66 We proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk ...
... strong public feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most insignificant name , than for the most important principle . 66 We proper to supernatural agents . We feel that we could talk ...
Page 21
... strong democratic spirit was called into action . The Carlovingian Sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and ...
... strong democratic spirit was called into action . The Carlovingian Sovereigns were too imbecile to subdue it . The generous policy of Otho encouraged it . It might perhaps have been suppressed by a close coalition between the Church and ...
Page 36
... strong distinction ; yet we approach them with feelings altogether dis- similar . We cannot conceive of them as using the expressions or gestures of each other . Let us suppose that a zoologist should attempt to give an account of some ...
... strong distinction ; yet we approach them with feelings altogether dis- similar . We cannot conceive of them as using the expressions or gestures of each other . Let us suppose that a zoologist should attempt to give an account of some ...
Page 39
... strong as in people in- capable of reasoning - savages , children , mad- men , and dreamers ; but for the purpose of en- abling the artist to communicate his concep- tions to others . In a barbarous age the imagination exercises a ...
... strong as in people in- capable of reasoning - savages , children , mad- men , and dreamers ; but for the purpose of en- abling the artist to communicate his concep- tions to others . In a barbarous age the imagination exercises a ...
Page 42
... strong as death , and jealousy , cruel as the grave . The brave and loyal subject passes , step by step , to the extremities of hu- man depravity . We trace his progress from the first dawnings of unlawful ambition , to the cynical ...
... strong as death , and jealousy , cruel as the grave . The brave and loyal subject passes , step by step , to the extremities of hu- man depravity . We trace his progress from the first dawnings of unlawful ambition , to the cynical ...
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