 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent,... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent,... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - 1878 - 748 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick, they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity* is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility * of particles, is taken in its metaphorical... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity * is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility * of particles. is taken in its metaphorical... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
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... for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by... 
