The American Whig Review, Volumen5;Volumen11Wiley and Putnam, 1850 |
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... human judgments . Of this habitual diversity there are two general causes . The one consists in the variety of circumstances in which the same subject is seen by different persons . The other , in the variations of condition under which ...
... human judgments . Of this habitual diversity there are two general causes . The one consists in the variety of circumstances in which the same subject is seen by different persons . The other , in the variations of condition under which ...
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... human heart has , no less than the religious , its stated period of idolatry . The medi - æval chivalry , generally , ( as well as the worship of the Virgin , ) was the idolatry of love , in the person of emancipated woman . The avarice ...
... human heart has , no less than the religious , its stated period of idolatry . The medi - æval chivalry , generally , ( as well as the worship of the Virgin , ) was the idolatry of love , in the person of emancipated woman . The avarice ...
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... human action , the real , the essential , the objective test of " good " or " evil . " If the computation be confined to the occurrences of individual life , the result would give not only the portion of positive happiness or misery in ...
... human action , the real , the essential , the objective test of " good " or " evil . " If the computation be confined to the occurrences of individual life , the result would give not only the portion of positive happiness or misery in ...
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... human intelligence , hitherto at least , has been less competent , and has had less part , for good or evil , in the art of government , than is commonly thought . The exclamation of the Swedish chancel- lor " with how little wisdom the ...
... human intelligence , hitherto at least , has been less competent , and has had less part , for good or evil , in the art of government , than is commonly thought . The exclamation of the Swedish chancel- lor " with how little wisdom the ...
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real import stamps it as the first step of humanity in the inductive exploration of the science of government , of the laws of society . For as human happiness is the effect of these laws , and human feelings a constituent element of ...
real import stamps it as the first step of humanity in the inductive exploration of the science of government , of the laws of society . For as human happiness is the effect of these laws , and human feelings a constituent element of ...
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Página 288 - DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Página 296 - In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow ; (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day.
Página 288 - I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
Página 288 - ... upon opium, the bitter lapse into everyday life, the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it, I paused to think, what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher...
Página 292 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he ; not...
Página 293 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Página 291 - Lyrical Ballads", in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes...
Página 291 - ... the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations...
Página 286 - Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart: one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to...
Página 288 - I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth.