The Doctrine of Changes as Applicable Both to the Institutions of Social Life and to the Progressive Order of NatureThomas Clark, 1844 - 520 من الصفحات |
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... alteration and of progress - more especially , to ascertain , as far as possible , the laws to which those great changes which occasionally vary the scene of human life seem to be subject — and to point out the rules which ought to be ...
... alteration and of progress - more especially , to ascertain , as far as possible , the laws to which those great changes which occasionally vary the scene of human life seem to be subject — and to point out the rules which ought to be ...
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... alterations may be made on existing systems , conformably with the obvious change of circumstances which in successive gene- rations must take place , still their opinions and their institutions , civil or sacred , are certainly ...
... alterations may be made on existing systems , conformably with the obvious change of circumstances which in successive gene- rations must take place , still their opinions and their institutions , civil or sacred , are certainly ...
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... alterations only with a feeling of ridicule as to the absurdity of all such attempts - and carried , in their very looks , an expression which it was amus- ing to notice , when it was at any time hinted , that nothing in this world is ...
... alterations only with a feeling of ridicule as to the absurdity of all such attempts - and carried , in their very looks , an expression which it was amus- ing to notice , when it was at any time hinted , that nothing in this world is ...
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... alteration which is destined eventually to produce the most momentous effects - and the secret hearts and thoughts of men , which are the true theatres of all great alterations , may thus for many years be slowly adopting modes of ...
... alteration which is destined eventually to produce the most momentous effects - and the secret hearts and thoughts of men , which are the true theatres of all great alterations , may thus for many years be slowly adopting modes of ...
الصفحة 26
... at the time of their existence , they may be observed to have maintained their place through- out a long series of ages , and amid many great alterations in the remote portions of the commu- nities of 26 GENERAL VIEWS APPLICABLE.
... at the time of their existence , they may be observed to have maintained their place through- out a long series of ages , and amid many great alterations in the remote portions of the commu- nities of 26 GENERAL VIEWS APPLICABLE.
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الصفحة 520 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
الصفحة 520 - ... So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
الصفحة 520 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach...
الصفحة 103 - The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities; the one Antiquity, the other Novelty : wherein it seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father. For as he devoureth his children, so one of them seeketh to devour and suppress the other ; while antiquity envieth there should be new additions, and novelty cannot be content to add but it must deface.
الصفحة 277 - ... that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass that mean and small things discover great better than great can discover the small; and therefore Aristotle noteth well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in his smallest portions...
الصفحة 520 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
الصفحة 303 - The successful results of our experiments and reasonings in natural philosophy, and the incalculable advantages which experience, systematically consulted and dispassionately 'reasoned on, has conferred in matters purely physical, tend of necessity to impress something of the well weighed and progressive character of science on the more complicated conduct of our social and moral relations. It is thus that legislation and politics become gradually regarded as experimental...
الصفحة 38 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and shall break^ in blessings on your head.
الصفحة 505 - By virtue of this life the great masses are held together in their orderly courses, as well as the minutest particles governed in their natural motions, according to the several laws of attraction, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and the rest. It is this gives instinct, teaches the spider her web, and the bee her honey.
الصفحة 300 - ... and more effectually developed in their consequences, and receive that ductility and plastic quality which the pressure of minds of all descriptions, constantly moulding them to their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped of all such technicalities as tend to place it in the light of a craft and a mystery, inaccessible without a kind of apprenticeship.