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" The work presents the most profound ideas in a simple and attractive form. The discussion of these principles, which in their primitive abstraction are so repulsive to most minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable... "
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter - Page 18
by Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1845
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...minds, is carried on through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other. Charles Elwood, who tells his...
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The Worship of Genius: And, The Distinctive Character Or Essence of Christianity

Carl Ullmann - 1846 - 164 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other."—Dial. Chapman, Brothers,...
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The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett

Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1846 - 166 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with con-siderable dramatic etfect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other."—Dial. 17 Works published...
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A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion

Theodore Parker - 1846 - 418 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other." — Duil. 18 Works published...
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The Miscellaneous Writings

Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1846 - 436 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medinm of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other."— Dial. Chapman, Brothers,...
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The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett

Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1846 - 166 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other."— Dial. THE CATHOLIC SKH1KS...
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Two Orations Against Taking Away Human Life Under Any Circumstances: And in ...

Thomas Cooper - 1846 - 96 pages
...tomostmiurts. is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...made to sustain the most weighty arguments on the C" 'losophy of religion; but the conduct h of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much...
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The Aristocracy of England: A History for the People

William Howitt - 1846 - 376 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...slender thread of narrative is made to sustain the mosf weighty arguments on the philosophy of religion ; but the conduct both of the story and of the...
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The Elements of Individualism: A Series of Lectures

William Maccall - 1847 - 392 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medinm of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other." — Dial, " This work is an...
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The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels, Volume 1

Andrews Norton - 1847 - 414 pages
...minds, is carried on, through the medium of a slight fiction, with considerable dramatic effect. We become interested in the final opinions of the subjects...both of the story and of the discussion is managed with so much skill, that they serve to relieve and forward each other." — Dial. On the nature of...
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