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... thought by every one to be as great a deviation from the ordinary state of man , as if he were incapable of distinguishing the brightest sunshine from the darkest midnight . Acquired perceptions and sentiments may therefore be termed ...
... thought by every one to be as great a deviation from the ordinary state of man , as if he were incapable of distinguishing the brightest sunshine from the darkest midnight . Acquired perceptions and sentiments may therefore be termed ...
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... thoughts , is foreign to the colder and more exact language of our philosophy ; but which , perhaps , then happily served to lure both the lovers of ... thought . we should see how it was cut and torn by 22 22 DISSERTATION ON THE PROGRESS.
... thoughts , is foreign to the colder and more exact language of our philosophy ; but which , perhaps , then happily served to lure both the lovers of ... thought . we should see how it was cut and torn by 22 22 DISSERTATION ON THE PROGRESS.
Side 30
... thought more elevate , " caught the love of Truth , * " Patience , sovereign o'er transmuted ill . " But as soon as the ill was really " transmuted " into good , it is evident that there was no longer any scope left for the exercise of ...
... thought more elevate , " caught the love of Truth , * " Patience , sovereign o'er transmuted ill . " But as soon as the ill was really " transmuted " into good , it is evident that there was no longer any scope left for the exercise of ...
Side 33
... thought and written as any in English prose . General satire on mankind is still more absurd ; for no invective can be so unreasonable as that which is founded on falling short of an ideal standard . tolerant of scepticism , as the old ...
... thought and written as any in English prose . General satire on mankind is still more absurd ; for no invective can be so unreasonable as that which is founded on falling short of an ideal standard . tolerant of scepticism , as the old ...
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... thought that to have been destitute of Letters was to them no more than a want of an ornament and a curtailment of gratification . Every poem , every history , every oration , every picture , every statue , is an experiment on human ...
... thought that to have been destitute of Letters was to them no more than a want of an ornament and a curtailment of gratification . Every poem , every history , every oration , every picture , every statue , is an experiment on human ...
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Side 167 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Side 277 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Side 257 - From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Side 267 - I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present King William; to make good his title in the consent of the people; which being the only one of all lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom; and to justify to the world the people of England, whose love of their just and natural rights, with their resolution to preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin.
Side 60 - The laws of nature are immutable and eternal; for injustice, ingratitude, arrogance, pride, iniquity, acception of persons, and the rest can never be made lawful. For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Side 445 - The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek. New Edition, with a new Index. Royal 8vo. price 42s. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance...
Side 445 - Ephemera.— The Book of the Salmon : Comprising the Theory, Principles, and Practice of Fly-fishing for Salmon : Lists of good Salmon Flies for every good River in the Empire ; the Natural History of the Salmon, all its known Habits described, and the best way of artificially Breeding it explained.
Side 309 - ... yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy toward her, and soon after married her...
Side 357 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Side 151 - Our approbation of morality, and all affections whatever, are resolvable into reason, pointing out private happiness ; and are conversant only about things apprehended to be means tending to this end ; and whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas, and may properly enough be called habits.