The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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... France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the hierarchy , it pulls down that monarchy also wherefore the ...
... France there is liberty of conscience in part , it is also plain that while the hierarchy is standing , this liberty is falling , and that if ever it comes to pull down the hierarchy , it pulls down that monarchy also wherefore the ...
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... France , were in some respects subservient to his designs by concentrating the powers of the French empire in its armies , and supplying them out of the wrecks of all other employments , save that of agriculture . France had already ...
... France , were in some respects subservient to his designs by concentrating the powers of the French empire in its armies , and supplying them out of the wrecks of all other employments , save that of agriculture . France had already ...
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... France . France and in Rome , we have learned , that the most abject dis- positions to slavery rapidly trod on the heels of the most outra- geous fanaticism for an almost anarchical liberty . Ruere in ser- vitium consules , patres ...
... France . France and in Rome , we have learned , that the most abject dis- positions to slavery rapidly trod on the heels of the most outra- geous fanaticism for an almost anarchical liberty . Ruere in ser- vitium consules , patres ...
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... France with incomparably greater rapidity , so it may have an incomparably shorter dura- tion . We are not conscious of any feelings of bitterness towards the First Consul ; or , if any , only that venial prejudice , which naturally ...
... France with incomparably greater rapidity , so it may have an incomparably shorter dura- tion . We are not conscious of any feelings of bitterness towards the First Consul ; or , if any , only that venial prejudice , which naturally ...
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... France and England at the commencement of the French Consulate , it was ridiculed as pedantry and pedants ' ignorance , to fear a repetition of such usurpation at the close of the enlightened eighteenth century . Those who possess the ...
... France and England at the commencement of the French Consulate , it was ridiculed as pedantry and pedants ' ignorance , to fear a repetition of such usurpation at the close of the enlightened eighteenth century . Those who possess the ...
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Page 408 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's 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 205 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
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 411 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 204 - Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
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 458 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 506 - Straight forward goes The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.