The Private Tutor, Or, Thoughts Upon the Love of Excelling and the Love of ExcellenceRowland Hunter, 1820 - 173 من الصفحات |
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... passing between two of the columns I perceived some men watching me with a sort of suspicion and jealousy , which ... pass of Thermopylæ , are under the dominion of the Turks . Athens is governed by a Vaivode , who buys the vi PREFACE .
... passing between two of the columns I perceived some men watching me with a sort of suspicion and jealousy , which ... pass of Thermopylæ , are under the dominion of the Turks . Athens is governed by a Vaivode , who buys the vi PREFACE .
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... of the field ? Was it that the creatures should pass carelessly by , only seen , not thought upon ? was it that we should view the a C. Lamb . several creatures , idly and without use , as they 52 The Works of Nature.
... of the field ? Was it that the creatures should pass carelessly by , only seen , not thought upon ? was it that we should view the a C. Lamb . several creatures , idly and without use , as they 52 The Works of Nature.
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... passes from the sun to the earth , a space of ninety - five millions of miles , in eight minutes , and the beams of the smallest taper are visible at sea , in a dark night , for at least three miles : so that the particles of light ...
... passes from the sun to the earth , a space of ninety - five millions of miles , in eight minutes , and the beams of the smallest taper are visible at sea , in a dark night , for at least three miles : so that the particles of light ...
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... pass through such a bulk of solid matter , as glass , or of a fluid , as water ; yet so as at the same time to convey a great and exquisite variety of images , even though the light suffers refraction and reflection ; that the loadstone ...
... pass through such a bulk of solid matter , as glass , or of a fluid , as water ; yet so as at the same time to convey a great and exquisite variety of images , even though the light suffers refraction and reflection ; that the loadstone ...
الصفحة 56
... pass and in- crease , as they go , from wheel to wheel ; ( 2. ) by excitation , or invi- tation , in another body ; as the loadstone animates numberless needles , without loss , or diminution of its virtue ; and we find the same kind of ...
... pass and in- crease , as they go , from wheel to wheel ; ( 2. ) by excitation , or invi- tation , in another body ; as the loadstone animates numberless needles , without loss , or diminution of its virtue ; and we find the same kind of ...
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الصفحة 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
الصفحة 4 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
الصفحة 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
الصفحة 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
الصفحة 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
الصفحة 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
الصفحة 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
الصفحة 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
الصفحة 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
الصفحة 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...