Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 էջ |
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... present publication will not fail to offer itself to the most superficial reader . I know many men who are misanthropes , and profess to look down with disdain on their species . My creed is of an opposite character . All that we ...
... present publication will not fail to offer itself to the most superficial reader . I know many men who are misanthropes , and profess to look down with disdain on their species . My creed is of an opposite character . All that we ...
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... present where two men of superior endowments endeavoured to enter into a calculation on the subject ; and they agreed that there was not above one boy in a hundred , 16 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY Of the Distribution of ...
... present where two men of superior endowments endeavoured to enter into a calculation on the subject ; and they agreed that there was not above one boy in a hundred , 16 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY Of the Distribution of ...
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... present professor of music in the university of Oxford contrived for himself , I believe at three years old , a way for playing on an instrument , the piano forte , unprompted by any of 11. ] 29 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS .
... present professor of music in the university of Oxford contrived for himself , I believe at three years old , a way for playing on an instrument , the piano forte , unprompted by any of 11. ] 29 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS .
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... present Essay , that , putting idiots and extra- ordinary cases out of the question , every human creature is endowed with talents , which , if rightly directed , would shew him to be apt , adroit , intelligent and acute , in the walk ...
... present Essay , that , putting idiots and extra- ordinary cases out of the question , every human creature is endowed with talents , which , if rightly directed , would shew him to be apt , adroit , intelligent and acute , in the walk ...
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... present to a wondering world a consummate musician , painter , poet , or philoso- pher ; for even blind chance may sometimes hit the mark , as truly as the most perfect skill . But he will probably fail . Sudet multum , frustraque ...
... present to a wondering world a consummate musician , painter , poet , or philoso- pher ; for even blind chance may sometimes hit the mark , as truly as the most perfect skill . But he will probably fail . Sudet multum , frustraque ...
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ... William Godwin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1831 |
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Էջ 129 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Էջ 187 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Էջ 328 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
Էջ 128 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Էջ 192 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Էջ 118 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Էջ 213 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Էջ 74 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Էջ 100 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Էջ 29 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.