The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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الصفحة viii
... Causes of melancholy investigated - Trace- able to moral circumstances - The cure of our national melancholy to be ex- pected only from more rational plans of education - As public liberty has a ten- dency to engender it , so does ...
... Causes of melancholy investigated - Trace- able to moral circumstances - The cure of our national melancholy to be ex- pected only from more rational plans of education - As public liberty has a ten- dency to engender it , so does ...
الصفحة 13
... cause of liberty no longer en- gaged them in continual warfare , this prominent part of their character began to develope itself , and increased to such a degree , that at length they talked themselves out of all their dignity , and ...
... cause of liberty no longer en- gaged them in continual warfare , this prominent part of their character began to develope itself , and increased to such a degree , that at length they talked themselves out of all their dignity , and ...
الصفحة 14
... cause of it in the narrower compass of their education , and the more circumscribed range of their lives and employments . The love of scan- dal is generally in proportion to the deficiency of other topics ; and as in some countries it ...
... cause of it in the narrower compass of their education , and the more circumscribed range of their lives and employments . The love of scan- dal is generally in proportion to the deficiency of other topics ; and as in some countries it ...
الصفحة 15
... cause a more serious injury than that of those they are traducing . Thus I would not desire a more ample revenge upon a fair calumniator , than that which she executes upon herself . It would be unrelenting , indeed , to require more in ...
... cause a more serious injury than that of those they are traducing . Thus I would not desire a more ample revenge upon a fair calumniator , than that which she executes upon herself . It would be unrelenting , indeed , to require more in ...
الصفحة 36
... causes , ends , and necessary adjuncts . The natural world , then , and the natural government of the world , being a scheme , and such an incomprehensible scheme , we are led in consequence to believe that the moral go- vernment is ...
... causes , ends , and necessary adjuncts . The natural world , then , and the natural government of the world , being a scheme , and such an incomprehensible scheme , we are led in consequence to believe that the moral go- vernment is ...
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الصفحة 7 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
الصفحة 272 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
الصفحة 37 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
الصفحة 93 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
الصفحة 38 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
الصفحة viii - Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
الصفحة 93 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
الصفحة 270 - Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
الصفحة 118 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
الصفحة 186 - We know, indeed, several of the general laws of matter; and a great part of the natural behaviour of living agents is reducible to general laws. But we know, in a manner, nothing, by what laws storms and tempests, earthquakes, famine, pestilence, become the instruments of destruction to mankind.