The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 37-38 |
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الصفحة 14
... true or not of nature , it is clear enough that the mind abhors a vacuum , and , if it be not supplied with better matter for contemplation , it will fill up its measure of thinking with the homely topics of the day , or the vulgar ...
... true or not of nature , it is clear enough that the mind abhors a vacuum , and , if it be not supplied with better matter for contemplation , it will fill up its measure of thinking with the homely topics of the day , or the vulgar ...
الصفحة 25
... true philosopher must heartily despise , and which tends to rob life of all its spirit and pleasantry . " Were the influence of truth , by the exertions of its advocates , to be very much increased upon earth , I should fear it would ...
... true philosopher must heartily despise , and which tends to rob life of all its spirit and pleasantry . " Were the influence of truth , by the exertions of its advocates , to be very much increased upon earth , I should fear it would ...
الصفحة 27
... true to this lying system as long as I have the faculty of in- vention and the power of utterance . But as I consi- der it as my duty to lie , I consider it also as my pro- vince to believe , that I may be passively as well as actively ...
... true to this lying system as long as I have the faculty of in- vention and the power of utterance . But as I consi- der it as my duty to lie , I consider it also as my pro- vince to believe , that I may be passively as well as actively ...
الصفحة 35
... true , why should we be anxious to prolong our stay in such a squalid and disorderly scene ? Why should we give ourselves trouble about any thing further than the easiest mode of mixing with our mother earth ? Why should we suffer our ...
... true , why should we be anxious to prolong our stay in such a squalid and disorderly scene ? Why should we give ourselves trouble about any thing further than the easiest mode of mixing with our mother earth ? Why should we suffer our ...
الصفحة 63
... true philo- sophical elevation which fits us for great situations , for wide connections , and for illustrious distinctions , among the rest of our species . But where we see in a youth no spontaneous es- says of thought and observation ...
... true philo- sophical elevation which fits us for great situations , for wide connections , and for illustrious distinctions , among the rest of our species . But where we see in a youth no spontaneous es- says of thought and observation ...
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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.