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... admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk ...
... admiration writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur . ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk ...
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... admiration . One may often hear some writers of the ' magic - lanthorn school ' spoken of as possessing wonderful ... admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness and obscurity of the style that make the power ...
... admiration . One may often hear some writers of the ' magic - lanthorn school ' spoken of as possessing wonderful ... admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness and obscurity of the style that make the power ...
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... admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which , when approached closely , or when viewed through a good glass , proves to be a mere ...
... admired writers , may be compared to a fog - bank at sea , which the navigator at first glance takes for a chain of majestic mountains , but which , when approached closely , or when viewed through a good glass , proves to be a mere ...
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... admired or liked , or indeed understood , except by those who possess it . But Truth , as Bacon says , ' only doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the ...
... admired or liked , or indeed understood , except by those who possess it . But Truth , as Bacon says , ' only doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the ...
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... admirable qualities of persons who attracted no notice in their life - time , and again ( which is much more common ) , to publish laudatory biographies ( to say nothing of raising subscriptions for monumental testi- monials ) of ...
... admirable qualities of persons who attracted no notice in their life - time , and again ( which is much more common ) , to publish laudatory biographies ( to say nothing of raising subscriptions for monumental testi- monials ) of ...
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advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word