 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 էջ
...in the world, 1 doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have the majority, at least whilst the authority of men, and not the examination of things, must be its measure. The imputation of scepticism, and those broad insinuations to render what I have writ suspected, so... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 էջ
...commentary of Pitisciu, p. i84. s 373 KOTIS TO THE rotrnTH CANTO OF Note 48, page i39, lines i0 and n. What from this barren being do we reap? Our senses narrow , and our reason frail, '»•««. omnes pene veteres, qui nihil cognosci, nihil percepi , nihil scir! posse dixenint ; augustos... | |
 | mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 572 էջ
...she had withdrawn from Plunket's breast some portion of the load which oppressed it. CHAPCHAPTER VI. What from this barren being do we reap.? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weighed in custom's scale; Opinion... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 էջ
...the world, I doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have the majority ; at least, whilst the authority of men, and not the examination of things, must be its measure. The imputation of scepticism, and those broad insinuations to render what I have writ suspected, so... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 672 էջ
...in the world, I doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have the majority, at least whilst the authority of men, and not the examination .of things, must be its measure. The imputation of scepticism, and those broad insinuations to render what I have writ suspected, so... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 էջ
...ecstasy, The merry bird of morn can fill All nature's bosom with his glee. ON LIBERTY. By Lord Byron. What from this barren being do we reap ? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and Truth a gem which loves the deep, Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 էջ
...the world, I doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have the majority, at least, whilst the authority of men, and not the examination of things, must be its measure. The imputation of scepticism, and those broad insinuations to render what I have writ suspected, so... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 էջ
...appears Without an ark for wretched man's abode, And ebbs but to reflow!—Renew thy rainbow, God! XCIII. What from this barren being do we reap? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, ^ 8 Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale;... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 էջ
...appears Without an ark for wretched man's abode, And ebbs but to reflow ! — Renew thy rainbow, God! What from this barren being do we reap ? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale;... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 էջ
...pleased, he would surely have made you one people : but he will lead into error whom he pleaseth, a " What from this barren being do we reap? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale... | |
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What from this barren being do we reap? Our senses narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence, — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,... 
