The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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... reason could but ill contend with the crosses and calamities of life . But if this condition of universal change was designed as a source of consolation to suffering hu- manity , it was also designed to be a perpetual les- son of ...
... reason could but ill contend with the crosses and calamities of life . But if this condition of universal change was designed as a source of consolation to suffering hu- manity , it was also designed to be a perpetual les- son of ...
الصفحة 14
... reason , wherever there is the greatest dearth of popular information , there will always be the greatest tendency to this odious habit ; and in proportion as a place is small , and in- sulated from general communication ; in proportion ...
... reason , wherever there is the greatest dearth of popular information , there will always be the greatest tendency to this odious habit ; and in proportion as a place is small , and in- sulated from general communication ; in proportion ...
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... reason and nature in this particular . It seems , I say , some- thing like a contradiction , that since the promotion of his private happiness is so entirely the duty of every individual , there should be so much in the general system ...
... reason and nature in this particular . It seems , I say , some- thing like a contradiction , that since the promotion of his private happiness is so entirely the duty of every individual , there should be so much in the general system ...
الصفحة 24
... treat- ed . You are to know , Sir , that from earliest youth I have ever detested partiality and persecution of every kind : and I see no reason why what you are pleased to call vice should not have as fair play as 24 No. 67 . LOOKER - ON .
... treat- ed . You are to know , Sir , that from earliest youth I have ever detested partiality and persecution of every kind : and I see no reason why what you are pleased to call vice should not have as fair play as 24 No. 67 . LOOKER - ON .
الصفحة 27
... reason to repine at the over- throw of this lying system , how would the poet exist in such an inverted order of things ? Tell him to be splendidè mendax no longer - no longer to de- vote his talents to the propagation and embellish ...
... reason to repine at the over- throw of this lying system , how would the poet exist in such an inverted order of things ? Tell him to be splendidè mendax no longer - no longer to de- vote his talents to the propagation and embellish ...
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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.