Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Volume 3J. Murray, 1847 |
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Page 437 - And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world.
Page 374 - And since the extension, figure, number, and motion of bodies, of an observable bigness, may be perceived at a distance by the sight, it is evident some singly imperceptible bodies must come from them to the eyes, and thereby convey to the brain some motion, which produces these ideas which we have of them in us.
Page 414 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 415 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page 442 - ... at the old one. To this I answer, Quite the contrary. People are not so easily got out of their old forms as some are apt to suggest.
Page 436 - As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.
Page 476 - English stages, and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.
Page 551 - No man is capable of translating poetry who, besides a genius to that art, is not a master both of his author's language and of his own.
Page 107 - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page 28 - ... was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode, and the gaiety of the less ; that he was equally qualified for spritely sallies and for lofty flights...