Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471페이지 |
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... entered in 1791 upon that which may be considered as my voca- tion in life , I have scarcely in any instance contri- buted a page to any periodical miscellany . My mind has been constitutionally meditative ; and I should not have felt ...
... entered in 1791 upon that which may be considered as my voca- tion in life , I have scarcely in any instance contri- buted a page to any periodical miscellany . My mind has been constitutionally meditative ; and I should not have felt ...
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... entered upon a certain ca- reer ; and I held it for my duty not to abandon it . One thing further I feel prompted to say . I have always regarded it as my office to address myself to plain men , and in clear and unambi- guous terms . It ...
... entered upon a certain ca- reer ; and I held it for my duty not to abandon it . One thing further I feel prompted to say . I have always regarded it as my office to address myself to plain men , and in clear and unambi- guous terms . It ...
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... thinker ; and the man that does not write , is but half an in- vestigator . Not to enter into all the mysteries of articulate speech and the irresistible power of eloquence , whether addressed OF BODY AND MIND . [ ESSAY.
... thinker ; and the man that does not write , is but half an in- vestigator . Not to enter into all the mysteries of articulate speech and the irresistible power of eloquence , whether addressed OF BODY AND MIND . [ ESSAY.
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... enter- tained ever since the birth of reflection and logical discourse in the world , and which in some faint and confused degree exists probably even among savages , that the body is the prison of the mind . It is in this sense that ...
... enter- tained ever since the birth of reflection and logical discourse in the world , and which in some faint and confused degree exists probably even among savages , that the body is the prison of the mind . It is in this sense that ...
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... of superior endowments endeavoured to enter into a calculation on the subject ; and they agreed that there was not above one boy in a hundred , 16 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY Of the Distribution of Talents.
... of superior endowments endeavoured to enter into a calculation on the subject ; and they agreed that there was not above one boy in a hundred , 16 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY Of the Distribution of Talents.
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129 페이지 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
187 페이지 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
328 페이지 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
128 페이지 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
192 페이지 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
118 페이지 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
213 페이지 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
74 페이지 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
100 페이지 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
29 페이지 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.