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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ...
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... scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
... scarcely ever mentioned , except as an instance of the blindness of that parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
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... scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its ...
... scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholder , or an American president . He gave the parliament a voice in the appointment of ministers , and left to it the whole legislative authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its ...
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... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and litera- ture of Italy , to read , without horror and After this it may seem ridiculous to say , that amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
... scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and litera- ture of Italy , to read , without horror and After this it may seem ridiculous to say , that amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
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... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are read- ing of times , in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and ...
... scarcely persuade ourselves that we are read- ing of times , in which the annals of England and France present us only with a frightful spectacle of poverty , barbarity , and ignorance . From the oppressions of illiterate masters , and ...
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