Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 էջ |
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... believe , that , since I entered in 1791 upon that which may be considered as my voca- tion in life , I have scarcely in any instance contri- buted a page to any periodical miscellany . My mind has been constitutionally meditative ; and ...
... believe , that , since I entered in 1791 upon that which may be considered as my voca- tion in life , I have scarcely in any instance contri- buted a page to any periodical miscellany . My mind has been constitutionally meditative ; and ...
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... believe this : and I publish my speculations accordingly . I have aimed at a popular , and ( if I could reach it ) an interesting style ; and , if I am thrust aside and disregarded , I shall console myself with believing that I have not ...
... believe this : and I publish my speculations accordingly . I have aimed at a popular , and ( if I could reach it ) an interesting style ; and , if I am thrust aside and disregarded , I shall console myself with believing that I have not ...
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... believe that the mind . cannot subsist without the body ; at least we must be very different creatures from what we are at pre- sent , when that shall take place . For a man to think , agreeably and with serenity , he must be in some ...
... believe that the mind . cannot subsist without the body ; at least we must be very different creatures from what we are at pre- sent , when that shall take place . For a man to think , agreeably and with serenity , he must be in some ...
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... believe , that , putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question , every hu- man creature is endowed with talents , which , if rightly directed , would shew him to be apt , adroit , intelligent and acute , in the walk for ...
... believe , that , putting idiots and extraordinary cases out of the question , every hu- man creature is endowed with talents , which , if rightly directed , would shew him to be apt , adroit , intelligent and acute , in the walk for ...
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... The 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 .
... The 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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Էջ 288 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Էջ 177 - 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 412 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Էջ 414 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Էջ 127 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Էջ 126 - 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 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 307 - And suppose they do, do they likewise abstain from unprofitable conversation ? Yet all this is unquestionably sinful, and "grieves the Holy Spirit of God :" yea, and " for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account in the day of judgment.
Էջ 414 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Էջ 429 - We can study the earth, its strata, its soil, its animals, and its productions, "from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall.