The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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الصفحة vi
... mind - Not adapted to all men - Absurd conduct of parents in this respect - Severe sentence pro- nounced by a father on his own child- Curious letter from a son abroad to his father at home ...... 71. Story of Urban Grandier ...... 72 ...
... mind - Not adapted to all men - Absurd conduct of parents in this respect - Severe sentence pro- nounced by a father on his own child- Curious letter from a son abroad to his father at home ...... 71. Story of Urban Grandier ...... 72 ...
الصفحة 1
... mind as that which is inspired by a view of the transitoriness of our na- tures , and the perishable allotment of every thing that appertains to man . I was grey - headed at twenty - five , and grey - headed I remain : and my mother ...
... mind as that which is inspired by a view of the transitoriness of our na- tures , and the perishable allotment of every thing that appertains to man . I was grey - headed at twenty - five , and grey - headed I remain : and my mother ...
الصفحة 2
... mind , this " forma mentis æterna , " is proved in a clear and astonishing manner by the inverse proportion in which its ca- pacities improve under a visible decay of the instru- ment of its operations . Even in the hour of mortal ...
... mind , this " forma mentis æterna , " is proved in a clear and astonishing manner by the inverse proportion in which its ca- pacities improve under a visible decay of the instru- ment of its operations . Even in the hour of mortal ...
الصفحة 3
... mind as separate from the body , its vehicle , as is the charioteer from the cha- riot in which he rides . Yet for all this it is melancholy to reflect upon the changing condition of all that regards our nature ; to contemplate the ...
... mind as separate from the body , its vehicle , as is the charioteer from the cha- riot in which he rides . Yet for all this it is melancholy to reflect upon the changing condition of all that regards our nature ; to contemplate the ...
الصفحة 4
... mind that has been exercised to re- flection to fix its hopes on any thing in this life , or lend to present concerns that greater half of our being which belongs to a permanent and solid futu- rity . Such contemplations as these ...
... mind that has been exercised to re- flection to fix its hopes on any thing in this life , or lend to present concerns that greater half of our being which belongs to a permanent and solid futu- rity . Such contemplations as these ...
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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.