The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... but pre - eminently with reference to the three great relations in which we are
placed in this world , - as citizens to the state , as men to our neighbors , and as
creatures to our Creator , - in other words , to politics , to morals , and to religion .
... but pre - eminently with reference to the three great relations in which we are
placed in this world , - as citizens to the state , as men to our neighbors , and as
creatures to our Creator , - in other words , to politics , to morals , and to religion .
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... or personal anecdote , as of direct moral , political , or metaphysical
disquisition , to lay down and illustrate certain fundamental distinctions and rules
of intellectual action , which , if well grounded and thoroughly taken up and
appropriated ...
... or personal anecdote , as of direct moral , political , or metaphysical
disquisition , to lay down and illustrate certain fundamental distinctions and rules
of intellectual action , which , if well grounded and thoroughly taken up and
appropriated ...
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But in respect to the entertainingness of moral writings , if in entertainment be
included whatever delights the imagination or affects the generous passions , so
far from rejecting such a mean of persuading the human soul , my very system ...
But in respect to the entertainingness of moral writings , if in entertainment be
included whatever delights the imagination or affects the generous passions , so
far from rejecting such a mean of persuading the human soul , my very system ...
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Released by these principles from all moral obligation , and ambitious of
procuring pastime and self - oblivion for a race , which could have nothing noble
to remember , nothing desirable to anticipate , I . might aspire even to the praise
of the ...
Released by these principles from all moral obligation , and ambitious of
procuring pastime and self - oblivion for a race , which could have nothing noble
to remember , nothing desirable to anticipate , I . might aspire even to the praise
of the ...
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... degrees ; and finally , to apply the principles thus ascertained , to the formation
of steadfast convictions concerning the most important questions of politics ,
morality , and religion — these are to be the objects and the contents of his work .
... degrees ; and finally , to apply the principles thus ascertained , to the formation
of steadfast convictions concerning the most important questions of politics ,
morality , and religion — these are to be the objects and the contents of his work .
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Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 375 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
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 416 - 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 415 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
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 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 413 - 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 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 460 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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| Title | The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2 The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, William Greenough Thayer Shedd |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Editors | William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1853 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2007 |
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