 They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is, that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when •we should submit ourselves...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3531897Full view - About this book
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 434 pages
...by all the essays: 'They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modem and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.' Berger is not one who flies for the refuge of seeming knowledge; his work continually returns to the... | |
 | J. M. Robertson - 2003 - 636 pages
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 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 488 pages
...course' of the play's swift onward movement the strength of 'the tides that bear men with them'. Thus 'we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves...when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear'. The assault on Bradley by Levin Schiicking and Edgar Elmer Stoll was much more radical. Both can be... | |
 | Richard Mason - 2003 - 152 pages
...understanding to linguistic understanding leads to these traps. Lafew: They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern...familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - 2004 - 182 pages
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 | Nicholas Royle - 2003 - 358 pages
...173), to an example from All's Well That Ends Well. Lafeu declares: 'They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless' (2.3.i-3). The Norton editors gloss this as meaning that philosophical persons 'make supernatural things,... | |
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