Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 էջ |
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... true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey with his claws ...
... true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey with his claws ...
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... true desti- nation . Human creatures are born into the world with various dispositions . According to the memorable saying of Themistocles , One man can play upon a psaltery or harp , and another can by political skill and ingenuity ...
... true desti- nation . Human creatures are born into the world with various dispositions . According to the memorable saying of Themistocles , One man can play upon a psaltery or harp , and another can by political skill and ingenuity ...
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... true . He sees the objects about him with an eye peculiarly his own ; the sounds that reach his ear , produce an effect upon him , and leave a me- mory behind , different from that which is experi- enced by his fellows . His perceptions ...
... true . He sees the objects about him with an eye peculiarly his own ; the sounds that reach his ear , produce an effect upon him , and leave a me- mory behind , different from that which is experi- enced by his fellows . His perceptions ...
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... true that we cannot suppose nature to be guided in her operations by the infinite divisible- ness of human pursuits in civilised society . But it is not the less true that one man is by his structure best fitted to excel in some one in ...
... true that we cannot suppose nature to be guided in her operations by the infinite divisible- ness of human pursuits in civilised society . But it is not the less true that one man is by his structure best fitted to excel in some one in ...
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... true test of the capacity of the individual , is where the desire to succeed , and accomplish some- thing effective , is already awakened in the youthful mind . Whoever has found out what it is in which he is qualified to excel , from ...
... true test of the capacity of the individual , is where the desire to succeed , and accomplish some- thing effective , is already awakened in the youthful mind . Whoever has found out what it is in which he is qualified to excel , from ...
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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.