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Author by : J. W. Simmons
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Release Date : 2015-07-04
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ISBN : 1330669940
Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Moral Character of Lord Byron From such a survey, we are unavoidably led to deduce the discouraging truth, that, while it is made the foundation of Natural Law, that man should be left to pursue his own happiness in his own way; happiness is almost entirely dependant upon circumstances over which we can have no possible controul; and seems to be least attainable by those who have usually the greatest capacity for its enjoyment - men of acute intellectual sensibility. These remarks are suggested by the personal history of the extraordinary individual whose moral character we purpose briefly to consider. The somewhat anomalous character of Lord Byron, both as a writer and a man, presents a wide field of inquiry to the philosopher, and the critic, and is calculated perhaps, to exhaust, alike the ingenuity of speculation and the powers of metaphysical analysis. His frame, morally and intellectually, may be said repeatedly to have undergone the nicest operations of the anatomical pen; and yet the mystery of his being, remains still to be developed. The analysis of mind, unlike that of matter, requires in every stage of its progress, certain data and criteria in order to direct and facilitate its operations, which, while they are but rarely afforded to the inquirer, are at the same time, in a great degree, vague, hypothetical, and unsatisfactory. It is in such cases that we are led to remark, and to lament the limitation which seemed set to the researches of the human mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works....