The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volumen2Perkins & Marvin, 1836 |
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... mean a large fish or a small one , a whale or a minnow , a shell fish or a fish with a skin , a halibut or an eel . Now it has been unfortunate , especially in immaterial things , that writers have been more intent on the inclusive ...
... mean a large fish or a small one , a whale or a minnow , a shell fish or a fish with a skin , a halibut or an eel . Now it has been unfortunate , especially in immaterial things , that writers have been more intent on the inclusive ...
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... means . I could only answer him by saying it means the soul and essence of all virtue ; and this definition would be much more clear than benevo- lence ; for the word chamasish has none of those more specific expressions which always ...
... means . I could only answer him by saying it means the soul and essence of all virtue ; and this definition would be much more clear than benevo- lence ; for the word chamasish has none of those more specific expressions which always ...
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... means ? How can you make men fight for a meta- physical abstraction ? Nothing is more common ; and the reason is because the mind admires the vast , the immense , the indefinite ; and where the object is obscure , the passions will be ...
... means ? How can you make men fight for a meta- physical abstraction ? Nothing is more common ; and the reason is because the mind admires the vast , the immense , the indefinite ; and where the object is obscure , the passions will be ...
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... means by which they should be obtained . This temptation is managed with great art , inasmuch as it involves one prediction which is immediately to be fulfilled ; and that , too , without any crime or agency on the part of Macbeth . He ...
... means by which they should be obtained . This temptation is managed with great art , inasmuch as it involves one prediction which is immediately to be fulfilled ; and that , too , without any crime or agency on the part of Macbeth . He ...
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... means , and we shuffle out of sight the means and think only of the end , -v are in a most dangerous state . The mind , whatever palliations it may offer to itself , is beginning to incline the wrong way . We are in the exact situation ...
... means , and we shuffle out of sight the means and think only of the end , -v are in a most dangerous state . The mind , whatever palliations it may offer to itself , is beginning to incline the wrong way . We are in the exact situation ...
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Página 50 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Página 214 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 25 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 57 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 41 - As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landscape snow or shower, If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Página 53 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 58 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
Página 54 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Página 106 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 178 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.