Vulgar words in Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian (Page 1)
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Ossian was too good an Irishman for any one to make up his mind to damn him utterly.
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We cannot too much or too often repeat our warning against this lax and even mean habit of thought which seeks for its principle amongst empirical motives and laws; for human reason in its weariness is glad to rest on this pillow, and in a dream of sweet illusions (in which, instead of Juno, it embraces a cloud) it substitutes for morality a bastard patched up from limbs of various derivation, which looks like anything one chooses to see in it; only not like virtue to one who has once beheld her in her true form.
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Farewell to all types of power without an aim; to all personifications of the solitary individuality which seeks an aim to find it not, and knows not how to apply the life stirring within it; to all egotistic joys and griefs: "Bastards of the soul; O'erweening slips of idleness: weeds--no more- Self-springing here and there from the rank soil; O'erflowings of the lust of that same mind Whose proper issue and determinate end, When wedded to the love of things divine, Is peace, complacency, and happiness."