Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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... jacobin , in which , having previously informed the public that I had been dishonoured at Cambridge for preaching Deism , at a time when , for my youthful ardour in defence of Christianity , I was decried as a bigot by the proselytes of ...
... jacobin , in which , having previously informed the public that I had been dishonoured at Cambridge for preaching Deism , at a time when , for my youthful ardour in defence of Christianity , I was decried as a bigot by the proselytes of ...
Page 110
... Jacobinism or even of democracy , and can attest the strict accuracy of the statement which I have left on record in the tenth and eleventh numbers of THE FRIEND . From this rememberable tour I returned with nearly a thousand names on ...
... Jacobinism or even of democracy , and can attest the strict accuracy of the statement which I have left on record in the tenth and eleventh numbers of THE FRIEND . From this rememberable tour I returned with nearly a thousand names on ...
Page 111
... Jacobin and democratic patrons ; for , disgusted by their infidelity , and their adoption of French morals with French psiloso- phy ; and perhaps thinking , that charity ought to begin nearest home ; instead of abusing the government ...
... Jacobin and democratic patrons ; for , disgusted by their infidelity , and their adoption of French morals with French psiloso- phy ; and perhaps thinking , that charity ought to begin nearest home ; instead of abusing the government ...
Page 112
... Jacobin , I retired to a cottage at Stowey , and provided for my scanty maintenance by writing verses for a London Morning Paper . I saw plainly , that literature was not a profession , by which I could expect to live ; for I could not ...
... Jacobin , I retired to a cottage at Stowey , and provided for my scanty maintenance by writing verses for a London Morning Paper . I saw plainly , that literature was not a profession , by which I could expect to live ; for I could not ...
Page 117
... Jacobinism , which the writings of Burke exorcised from the higher and from the literary classes , may not , like the ghost in Hamlet , be heard moving and mining in the underground chambers with an activity the more dangerous because ...
... Jacobinism , which the writings of Burke exorcised from the higher and from the literary classes , may not , like the ghost in Hamlet , be heard moving and mining in the underground chambers with an activity the more dangerous because ...
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