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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... sense , and cleverness : relative character of the national mind of Germany , England , and France . II . Self - interest and conscience : ethics not founded on utility : honor : universal assent a presumption of truth : ground of ...
... sense , and cleverness : relative character of the national mind of Germany , England , and France . II . Self - interest and conscience : ethics not founded on utility : honor : universal assent a presumption of truth : ground of ...
Page xv
... to your medical skill , and to the characteristic good sense which directed its exertion in my behalf ; and whatever I may * Dedication to the second edition . - Ed . xvi have written in happier vein to the influence of.
... to your medical skill , and to the characteristic good sense which directed its exertion in my behalf ; and whatever I may * Dedication to the second edition . - Ed . xvi have written in happier vein to the influence of.
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... sense of succession is lost in the uniformity of the stream . It was toward the close of this golden age ( the memory of which the self - dissatisfied race of men have everywhere pre- served and cherished ) when conscience acted in man ...
... sense of succession is lost in the uniformity of the stream . It was toward the close of this golden age ( the memory of which the self - dissatisfied race of men have everywhere pre- served and cherished ) when conscience acted in man ...
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... sense of seeing . If you mean to be read , try to entertain , and do not pretend to instruct . To such objections it would be amply sufficient , on my system of faith , to answer , that we are not all blind , but all subject to ...
... sense of seeing . If you mean to be read , try to entertain , and do not pretend to instruct . To such objections it would be amply sufficient , on my system of faith , to answer , that we are not all blind , but all subject to ...
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... sense , this is genius ! this I understand and ad- mire ! I have thought the very same a hundred times myself ! " In other words , this man has reminded me of my own clever- ness , and therefore I admire him . Oh ! for one piece of ...
... sense , this is genius ! this I understand and ad- mire ! I have thought the very same a hundred times myself ! " In other words , this man has reminded me of my own clever- ness , and therefore I admire him . Oh ! for one piece of ...
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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 410 - 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 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge Angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
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 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 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 410 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
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...