The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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الصفحة vii
... course and con- stitution of nature ....... .... 203 83. Letter from Prince Lee Boo to his father , containing his genuine feelings and sen- timents on the amusements of this coun- try - Modern archery - Milton's descrip- tion of the ...
... course and con- stitution of nature ....... .... 203 83. Letter from Prince Lee Boo to his father , containing his genuine feelings and sen- timents on the amusements of this coun- try - Modern archery - Milton's descrip- tion of the ...
الصفحة 7
... course of renewal and decay in the or- ganization of the particulars which compose this great whole , make the tenure of life and all its cir- cumstances awfully precarious in the midst of such general certainty and catholic order ...
... course of renewal and decay in the or- ganization of the particulars which compose this great whole , make the tenure of life and all its cir- cumstances awfully precarious in the midst of such general certainty and catholic order ...
الصفحة 8
... course of ambitious pursuits : for a mind once exercised to cabal and intrigue , is unhappy in its own element , and unfitted for every other . " If , then , after all our endeavours , and all our anxieties , the best we can do with our ...
... course of ambitious pursuits : for a mind once exercised to cabal and intrigue , is unhappy in its own element , and unfitted for every other . " If , then , after all our endeavours , and all our anxieties , the best we can do with our ...
الصفحة 11
... course of other vices . In all ages and all nations it has been triumphantly mischievous ; and from Hesiod to Ad- dison , every moral writer has complained of it , as the prevailing infirmity of his times . The gigantic growth ...
... course of other vices . In all ages and all nations it has been triumphantly mischievous ; and from Hesiod to Ad- dison , every moral writer has complained of it , as the prevailing infirmity of his times . The gigantic growth ...
الصفحة 28
... course of the voyage I observed him per- form a great many wonderful actions , such as riding upon crocodiles , and swimming among sea - monsters , who , appearing perfectly subjected to him , would wag their tails , and fawn upon him ...
... course of the voyage I observed him per- form a great many wonderful actions , such as riding upon crocodiles , and swimming among sea - monsters , who , appearing perfectly subjected to him , would wag their tails , and fawn upon him ...
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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.