The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1806 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... reason will become the age of absurdity ; irreligion will sub- vert all government , and anarchy lead to barbarism . it stopping a bunghole ; the world , with insufferable credulity , and without troubling themselves to reason at all ...
... reason will become the age of absurdity ; irreligion will sub- vert all government , and anarchy lead to barbarism . it stopping a bunghole ; the world , with insufferable credulity , and without troubling themselves to reason at all ...
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... reason to regret its destruction ? Gibbon , in his his- tory of the decline and fall of the Roman empire , [ Amer . edit . vol . 6 , page 368 ] seems to answer the question in the negative . " I sin- cerely regret , says he , the more ...
... reason to regret its destruction ? Gibbon , in his his- tory of the decline and fall of the Roman empire , [ Amer . edit . vol . 6 , page 368 ] seems to answer the question in the negative . " I sin- cerely regret , says he , the more ...
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... reasons and simple ex- struct many useful machines ;planations , not wishing to look in- of one , so discoursing , many , not to the arcana of our art . Now sim- only of the vulgar , but of the betple reasons and simple explana- ter ...
... reasons and simple ex- struct many useful machines ;planations , not wishing to look in- of one , so discoursing , many , not to the arcana of our art . Now sim- only of the vulgar , but of the betple reasons and simple explana- ter ...
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... reason ; but it is a fav- the inquirer is unacquainted . It ourite subject . This reason is foun- is like talking to a blind man , who ded on the presumption , that the knows not what colours are , of the physician is perfectly able to ...
... reason ; but it is a fav- the inquirer is unacquainted . It ourite subject . This reason is foun- is like talking to a blind man , who ded on the presumption , that the knows not what colours are , of the physician is perfectly able to ...
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... reason , are always ready trick of incensed authors to rail to join in a laugh ; and thousands , against reviewers , as men who who understand nothing of the have inipudently set themselves principles of taste , can see an ah . up as ...
... reason , are always ready trick of incensed authors to rail to join in a laugh ; and thousands , against reviewers , as men who who understand nothing of the have inipudently set themselves principles of taste , can see an ah . up as ...
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Page 464 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 286 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 545 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 546 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
Page 523 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his...
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Page 546 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 464 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us...
Page 532 - The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den. Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's bed; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead.