The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... passions , so far from rejecting such a mean of per- suading the human soul , my very system compels me to defend not only the propriety , but the absolute necessity , of adopting it , if we really intend to render our fellow ...
... passions , so far from rejecting such a mean of per- suading the human soul , my very system compels me to defend not only the propriety , but the absolute necessity , of adopting it , if we really intend to render our fellow ...
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... passions . I use the former word as distinguished from the love of knowledge , and the latter in distinction from those emotions which arise in well - ordered minds , from the perception of truth or falsehood , virtue or vice ...
... passions . I use the former word as distinguished from the love of knowledge , and the latter in distinction from those emotions which arise in well - ordered minds , from the perception of truth or falsehood , virtue or vice ...
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... passion or predominant defect from himself , will betray the same to dispassionate observers , by his proneness on all occasions to suspect or accuse others of it . Now arrogance and presumption , like all other moral qualities , must ...
... passion or predominant defect from himself , will betray the same to dispassionate observers , by his proneness on all occasions to suspect or accuse others of it . Now arrogance and presumption , like all other moral qualities , must ...
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... passions to their ordinary objects among the strongest internal evidence of our future destination , and the at- tempt to restore them to their rightful claimants , the most impe- rious duty and the noblest task of genius . The verbal ...
... passions to their ordinary objects among the strongest internal evidence of our future destination , and the at- tempt to restore them to their rightful claimants , the most impe- rious duty and the noblest task of genius . The verbal ...
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... passion for the use of it , dupes to the love of duping ! A pride is flattered by these lies . He who fancies that he must be perpetually stooping down to the preju- dices of his fellow - creatures , is perpetually reminding and re ...
... passion for the use of it , dupes to the love of duping ! A pride is flattered by these lies . He who fancies that he must be perpetually stooping down to the preju- dices of his fellow - creatures , is perpetually reminding and re ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...