The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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الصفحة 36
... relations end . No action , no event stands so single and unconnected , as not to be re- lated to other actions , other events : nor are we safe in saying that there are not other relations beyond the limit of this present world . Every ...
... relations end . No action , no event stands so single and unconnected , as not to be re- lated to other actions , other events : nor are we safe in saying that there are not other relations beyond the limit of this present world . Every ...
الصفحة 37
... relations and con- sentaneities unfold themselves , and we gain more and more accurate views of the roundness and per- fection of this mighty system , till it may please the great Dispenser of all Things to purify and enlarge our mental ...
... relations and con- sentaneities unfold themselves , and we gain more and more accurate views of the roundness and per- fection of this mighty system , till it may please the great Dispenser of all Things to purify and enlarge our mental ...
الصفحة 41
... relation . No man can say that sufficient is not explained to him , to furnish out a plain rule of life ; that enough is not level to his comprehension , to bar the pretence of ignorance , to direct his course , and to stimulate his ...
... relation . No man can say that sufficient is not explained to him , to furnish out a plain rule of life ; that enough is not level to his comprehension , to bar the pretence of ignorance , to direct his course , and to stimulate his ...
الصفحة 42
... relations . We may understand the terms of the proposition , although we are unable to compre- hend its truth . We know very accurately what is meant by a circle and a square , but we are unable to determine their proportions , for want ...
... relations . We may understand the terms of the proposition , although we are unable to compre- hend its truth . We know very accurately what is meant by a circle and a square , but we are unable to determine their proportions , for want ...
الصفحة 43
... relations , he certainly did discover than had been till then conceded to human pene- tration ; yet was he forced to bottom all his rea- sonings on the hypothesis of gravitation , of which he could give no other account than that it was ...
... relations , he certainly did discover than had been till then conceded to human pene- tration ; yet was he forced to bottom all his rea- sonings on the hypothesis of gravitation , of which he could give no other account than that it was ...
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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.