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Página 95
In reasoning upon facts, we are apt to forget what complex, many-sided things we
are dealing with. We often speak of them as very simple and intelligible things,
whereas, in reality, they are most profoundly and inscrutably mysterious : they ...
In reasoning upon facts, we are apt to forget what complex, many-sided things we
are dealing with. We often speak of them as very simple and intelligible things,
whereas, in reality, they are most profoundly and inscrutably mysterious : they ...
Página 47
All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton ;
while Shakspeare becomes all things, yet ... Milton concentrates all things into
himself, and melts them down into his own individuality ; Shakspeare darts
himself ...
All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton ;
while Shakspeare becomes all things, yet ... Milton concentrates all things into
himself, and melts them down into his own individuality ; Shakspeare darts
himself ...
Página 153
It was i nature and force,' not ' of things' in gene- as Turgot taught, but of these
very things articular ; it was their own position, their i force and nature, their own
value, indepen- t of and prior to that of money, that made •a money. As a law of ...
It was i nature and force,' not ' of things' in gene- as Turgot taught, but of these
very things articular ; it was their own position, their i force and nature, their own
value, indepen- t of and prior to that of money, that made •a money. As a law of ...
Página 154
... its destination is perpetual employment in the same offices ; and while the
things on which it operates are constantly ... M'Culloch, and others of that ilk tell
us that money and a piece of calico are, commercially considered, the same thing
...
... its destination is perpetual employment in the same offices ; and while the
things on which it operates are constantly ... M'Culloch, and others of that ilk tell
us that money and a piece of calico are, commercially considered, the same thing
...
Página 427
We brag of our equal law of succession, but in some things it certainly stands in
the way of civilization and refinement. But though Rebecca is not able to bleed
her diplomatic brother-in-law, she gets the needful from a much greater man ...
We brag of our equal law of succession, but in some things it certainly stands in
the way of civilization and refinement. But though Rebecca is not able to bleed
her diplomatic brother-in-law, she gets the needful from a much greater man ...
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Página 158 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 35 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 100 - He raised a sigh so piteous and profound As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being : that done, he lets me go : And with his head over his shoulder turn'd, He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me.
Página 23 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Página 143 - And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Página 158 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Página 159 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Página 516 - I am in love with this green earth; the face of town and country; the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the sweet security of streets. I would set up my tabernacle here. I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I, and my friends : to be no younger, no richer, no handsomer. I do not want to be weaned by age ; or drop, like mellow fruit, as they Say, into the grave. — Any alteration, on this earth of mine, in diet or in lodging, puzzles and discomposes me. My household-gods plant...
Página 577 - I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for HeathclifF resembles the eternal rocks beneath : a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being...
Página 134 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...