But it is the grandeur of all truth which can occupy a very high place in human interests that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent principle in the lowest as in the highest, needing to be... The North British Review - Page 1631848Full view - About this book
| 1848 - 602 pages
...Whitehall. a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...with truth. What is the effect, for instance, upon «ocii;ty — of children ? By the pity, by the tenderness, and by the peculiar modes of admiration,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 310 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...with truth. What is the effect, for instance, upon society, of children ? By the pity, by the tenderness, and by the peculiar modes of admiration, which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...with truth. What is the effect, for instance, upon society, of children ? By the pity, by the tenderness, and by the peculiar modes of admiration, which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...with truth. What is the effect, for instance, upon society, of' children ? By the pity, by the tenderness, and by the peculiar modes of admiration, which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 316 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...with truth. What is the effect, for instance, upon society, of children ? By the pity, by the tenderness, and by the peculiar modes of admiration, which... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 312 pages
...interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of gyrm or latent principle in the lowest as in the highest^...immediate criterion of a truth that ranges on a lower scal<j. Besides which, there is a rarer thing than truth, namely, power or deep sympathy with truth.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 312 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent principle in the lowest as'in the highest, needing to be developed but never to be planted. To be capable of transplantation... | |
| Mary Greene Ware - 1854 - 246 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...needing to be developed, but never to be planted. — DB QUINCEY. MANY persons seem to suppose that the power of Thought, or at least the power of thinking... | |
| Mary Greene Chandler Ware - 1854 - 254 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds: it exists eternally by way of germ or latent...needing to be developed, but never to be planted. —DE QUIHCEY. MANY persons seem to suppose that the power of Thought, or at least the power of thinking... | |
| Mary Greene Ware - 1855 - 252 pages
...can occupy a very high place in human interests, that it is never absolutely novel to the meanest of minds : it exists eternally by way of germ or latent principle in the lowest as hi the highest, needing to be developed, but never to be planted." — DE QCINCET. MANY persons seem... | |
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