Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

· 1859

System Of The Heavens As Revealed By Lord Rosse's Telescopes Modern Superstition Coleridge And Opium-Eating Temperance Movement On War The Last Days Of Immanuel Kant 'To be weak,' we need not the great archangel's voice to tell us, '_is to be miserable_.' All weakness is suffering and humiliation, no matter for its mode or its subject. Beyond all other weakness, therefore, and by a sad prerogative, as more miserable than what is most miserable in all, that capital weakness of man which regards the _tenure_ of his enjoyments and his power to protect, even for a moment, the crown of flowers--flowers, at the best, how frail and few!--which sometimes settles upon his haughty brow. There is no e…

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