Maanedsskrift for litteratur, Volume 13

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1835
 

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Page 250 - Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming.
Page 237 - Few writers ever produced so great an effect on the political spirit of their generation as some of these novelists, who, without any other merit, unconsciously exposed the falsehood, the hypocrisy, the arrogant and vulgar insolence of patrician life. Read by all classes, in every town, in every village, these works, as I have before stated, could not but engender a mingled indignation and disgust at the parade of frivolity, the ridiculous disdain of truth, nature, and mankind, the self-consequence...
Page 237 - ... views of a more comprehensive mind, and relieved and contrasted by matters of a more vital interest. The spirit of Pelham was undoubtedly somewhat sectarian; nor are we altogether surprised that its scope should have been pretty generally identified with its more flimsy contemporaries. Even under the guise of satire, there was a visible anxiety to engage our sympathies, and enlist our prejudices in behalf of the man of fashion.
Page 228 - Bérarcî , j'ai rejeté* totalement la théorie des proportions de l'enseignement de l'arithmétique , comme y étant tout-à-fait superflue. Je n'en ai pas traité moins complètement pour cela toutes les questions qui sont du domaine de cette branche des sciences exactes ; et il m'a même...

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