The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1853 |
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... effect expressed his own convictions upon several of the most important questions , yet disputed in moral and politi- cal philosophy . But it is not so much to any given conclusion so expressed that the reader's attention seems to be ...
... effect expressed his own convictions upon several of the most important questions , yet disputed in moral and politi- cal philosophy . But it is not so much to any given conclusion so expressed that the reader's attention seems to be ...
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... effects . VII . Vulgar errors respecting taxes and taxation : true principles : national debt . VIII . Classes of political reformers : elective franchise . IX . Catechism preparatory to examination of the prin- ciples of the English ...
... effects . VII . Vulgar errors respecting taxes and taxation : true principles : national debt . VIII . Classes of political reformers : elective franchise . IX . Catechism preparatory to examination of the prin- ciples of the English ...
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... effects of habitual novel reading . It is true that these short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood : but it is equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections ...
... effects of habitual novel reading . It is true that these short and unconnected sentences are easily and instantly understood : but it is equally true , that wanting all the cement of thought as well as of style , all the connections ...
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... of intellect , when the effect may be equally well ac- counted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon.
... of intellect , when the effect may be equally well ac- counted for by declaring the author unintelligible ; or that he should accuse his own inattention , when by half a dozen phrases of abuse , as " heavy stuff , metaphysical jargon.
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... effect is produced not so much by the external occasion as from the active quality of their own thoughts . I had walked from Göttingen in the year 1799 , to witness the arrival of the Queen of Prussia , on her visit to the Baron Von ...
... effect is produced not so much by the external occasion as from the active quality of their own thoughts . I had walked from Göttingen in the year 1799 , to witness the arrival of the Queen of Prussia , on her visit to the Baron Von ...
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Page 421 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born : who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the' works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 46 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 242 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Page 470 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon : And yet more med'cinal is it than that Moly, That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave ; He call'd it Haemony, and gave it me, And bade me keep it as of sovran use 'Gainst all enchantments, mildew blast, or damp, Or ghastly furies
Page 269 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
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 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 305 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 104 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
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.