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- Robert Allerton, Harry and Maribel G. Blum, Mary and Leigh Block, Mary Waller Langhorne, Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt, Tillie C. Cohn, Richard T. Crane, Jr. Memorial, Eugene A. Davidson, Harriott A. Fox, Florence L. Notter, Kay and Frederick Krehbiel endowment funds; European Decorative Arts Purchase Fund;Irving and June Seaman Endowment Fund; through prior acquisition of the Reid Martin Estate. CC0.
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Within fifty years of Designed 1867, made c. 1876
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Lectures on English poets, The spirit of the age
His grand work is (at least) an experlmentum cruets to show the weak sides and imperfections of human reason as the sole law of human action. By overshooting the mark, or by * flying an eagle flight, forth and right on/ he has pointed out the limit or line of separation, between what is practicable and what is barely conceivable — by imposing impossible tasks on the naked strength of the will, he has discovered how far it is or is not in our power to dispense with the illusions
0.69Lectures on English poets, The spirit of the age
The Enquiry concerning Political Justice (it was urged by its favourers and defenders at the time, and may still be so, without either profaneness or levity) is a metaphysical and logical commentary on some of the most beautiful and striking texts of Scripture. Mr. Godwin is a mixture of the Stoic and of the Christian philosopher. To break the force of the vulgar objections and outcry that have been raised against the Modern Philosophy, as if it were a new and monstrous birth in morals, it may be worth noticing,
0.69Lectures on English poets, The spirit of the age
of natural imagination. He at the same time admitted that Mr Godwin had improved his native sterility in this respect ; or atoned for it by incessant activity of mind and by accumulated stores of thought and powers of language. In fact, his forte is not the spon- taneous, but the voluntary exercise of talent. He fixes his ambition on a high point of excellence, and spares no pains or time in attaining it. He has less of the appearance of a man of genius, than any one who has
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