Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... moral passions , and an unmistakable love of truth animates even his fiercest , haughtiest and most disdainful treatment of the opinions of opponents . These qualities do not of course wholly explain or ex- tenuate the leading defect of ...
... moral passions , and an unmistakable love of truth animates even his fiercest , haughtiest and most disdainful treatment of the opinions of opponents . These qualities do not of course wholly explain or ex- tenuate the leading defect of ...
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... moral judgments . He had a warm love for what was beautiful and true , but , in his writings , it generally took the negative form of hatred for what was deformed and false . He ab- horred meanness , baseness , fraud , falsehood ...
... moral judgments . He had a warm love for what was beautiful and true , but , in his writings , it generally took the negative form of hatred for what was deformed and false . He ab- horred meanness , baseness , fraud , falsehood ...
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... morally tainted , in order that he might exercise on its condemnation the rich resources of his scorn and in- vective . His progress through a tract of history was marked by the erection of the gallows , the gibbet , and the stake , and ...
... morally tainted , in order that he might exercise on its condemnation the rich resources of his scorn and in- vective . His progress through a tract of history was marked by the erection of the gallows , the gibbet , and the stake , and ...
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... meditations , however erroneous , on the mysteries of the moral and intellectual world ; and from interests which are im- mediately selfish to those which relate to the past , 64 CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS .
... meditations , however erroneous , on the mysteries of the moral and intellectual world ; and from interests which are im- mediately selfish to those which relate to the past , 64 CRITICISMS ON THE PRINCIPAL ITALIAN WRITERS .
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... moral excellence . It is of all religions the most poetical . The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy with beautiful images , but took no hold on the heart . The doctrines of the Reformed Churches have most powerfully influenced ...
... moral excellence . It is of all religions the most poetical . The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy with beautiful images , but took no hold on the heart . The doctrines of the Reformed Churches have most powerfully influenced ...
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