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Page 7
... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the ne- cessity of ...
... strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped one invisible Deity . But the ne- cessity of ...
Page 18
... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm back- ward , to break the ties which bound a stupe- fed people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm back- ward , to break the ties which bound a stupe- fed people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct was ...
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... strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is be- hind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or ...
... strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is be- hind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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