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... Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, t... ... they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, or other work of art. But I need not trouble myself with any attempt to describe the spirit ... ...s; a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in ... ... not with a view to regulate your prac- tice, but your judgment: as to old women, and the mob of newspaper readers, they are pleased with anything, pr... ...nto a book more recent. In fact, he had a theory with regard to the French Revolution, as having been the great cause of degeneration in murder. “Very... ...om Edinburgh brought him the ear- liest intelligence of the Burke-and-Hare revolution in the art, went mad upon the spot; and, instead of a pension to... ...se im- patiently to give the next toast:— “Our Irish friends; and a speedy revolution in their mode of tooling, as well as every- thing else connected... ... the poor king (Charles VI.) falling in at such a crisis, like the case of women laboring in childbirth during the storming of a city, trebled the awf... ... Domrémy, and, by a satisfactory consequence, how thinly sown with men and women must have been that region even in its inhabited spots. But the fores...

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