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The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Including All His ... - Page 198
by Thomas De Quincey - 1863
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 3

1823 - 584 pages
...great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,— like frost and snow, rain and...little, nothing useless or inert — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...great works of art ; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, — like frost and snow, rain and...which are to be studied with entire submission of out own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...great works of art ; but we also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and 'he tea, the stars and the flowers, — like frost and snow, rain and...can be no too much or too little, nothing useless ot inert — but that, the farther we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: on the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...great works of art, but are also like the phenomena of nature — like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, like frost and snow, rain and dew,...little, nothing useless or inert, — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrang-ement...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...great works of art, hut are also like the phenomena of nature — like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-storm and thunder, — which are to he studicd with entire suhmission of our own facultics, and in the perfect faith that in them there...
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Beauties

Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 452 pages
...great works of art ; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, — like frost and snow, rain and...too little, nothing useless or inert, but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement...
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The Art of Conversation and Other Papers

Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1863 - 346 pages
...like the sun and the sea, tbe stars and the flowers; like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-stonn and thunder, which are to be studied with entire submission...can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert—but that, the farther we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...which we live, first makes us profoundly sensible of the awful parenthesis that had suspended them. own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be uo too much or too little, nothing useless or inert ; but that, the further we press in our discoveries,...
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Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 320 pages
...great works of art ; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, — like frost and snow, rain and...are to be studied with entire submission of our own facilities, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...great works of art, but are also like the phenomena of nature — like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers, like frost and snow, rain and dew,...too little, nothing useless or inert ; but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement...
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