The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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... happy delusions which make a para- dise of our thoughts in early life , and which are among the most precious sacrifices that youth can make to manhood , or inexperience to knowledge . Yet this changing condition of man brings its com ...
... happy delusions which make a para- dise of our thoughts in early life , and which are among the most precious sacrifices that youth can make to manhood , or inexperience to knowledge . Yet this changing condition of man brings its com ...
الصفحة 22
... concluding , that in studying to make our- selves happy we fulfil one of the most evident indi- cations which Providence has given us of his will , and the principal end of our creation . In the 22 22 NO . 67 . LOOKER - ON .
... concluding , that in studying to make our- selves happy we fulfil one of the most evident indi- cations which Providence has given us of his will , and the principal end of our creation . In the 22 22 NO . 67 . LOOKER - ON .
الصفحة 26
... happy operation of this system of imposture appear , but in its graver duties and employments it is of equal use and importance . So necessary an accom- plishment is it thought to the most sanctified situa- tions , that the whole bench ...
... happy operation of this system of imposture appear , but in its graver duties and employments it is of equal use and importance . So necessary an accom- plishment is it thought to the most sanctified situa- tions , that the whole bench ...
الصفحة 27
... happy resource : what would become of all his gay comparisons and devout protestations ? Alas ! he could no longer assume that irresistible eloquence with which I seem to hear him repeat this tender falsehood— Indeed , my Laura , it is ...
... happy resource : what would become of all his gay comparisons and devout protestations ? Alas ! he could no longer assume that irresistible eloquence with which I seem to hear him repeat this tender falsehood— Indeed , my Laura , it is ...
الصفحة 32
... happy forerunner of reason , and plant in the mind an instinctive an- tipathy to vice , which in all its colours and des- criptions is tinctured with falsehood and deceit . " I am delighted , " continued this gentleman , " with a little ...
... happy forerunner of reason , and plant in the mind an instinctive an- tipathy to vice , which in all its colours and des- criptions is tinctured with falsehood and deceit . " I am delighted , " continued this gentleman , " with a little ...
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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.