The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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... mankind ; but your reading supplies you with sufficient examples of the disap- pointment of every scheme of aggrandisement whose views terminate with our present existence . In all the compass of history , I know of no instance in which ...
... mankind ; but your reading supplies you with sufficient examples of the disap- pointment of every scheme of aggrandisement whose views terminate with our present existence . In all the compass of history , I know of no instance in which ...
الصفحة 12
... mankind are , after all , to be our judges , and that by these mea- sures we are in fact denouncing those to whom we are making our appeal . It is a truth which we are long in being taught , that the world is very inde- pendent of every ...
... mankind are , after all , to be our judges , and that by these mea- sures we are in fact denouncing those to whom we are making our appeal . It is a truth which we are long in being taught , that the world is very inde- pendent of every ...
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... mankind , joined to the disgust arising from satiety , and a passion for the marvellous and incredible : add to this , that we are all fond , I know not why , of listening to private sus- picions which are whispered to us . I know many ...
... mankind , joined to the disgust arising from satiety , and a passion for the marvellous and incredible : add to this , that we are all fond , I know not why , of listening to private sus- picions which are whispered to us . I know many ...
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... mankind is equally the concern of our Maker , his great scheme must not be interrupted for any private advantage to an individual . Thus where I destroy more happiness than I procure to myself , I make , or attempt to make , a ...
... mankind is equally the concern of our Maker , his great scheme must not be interrupted for any private advantage to an individual . Thus where I destroy more happiness than I procure to myself , I make , or attempt to make , a ...
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... mankind ; and if we have robbed an individual of his due proportion , we have only to make it out to Providence by taking upon ourselves what remains on the balance . What a de- licious atonement is this ! and out of what a plain ...
... mankind ; and if we have robbed an individual of his due proportion , we have only to make it out to Providence by taking upon ourselves what remains on the balance . What a de- licious atonement is this ! and out of what a plain ...
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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.