Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471페이지 |
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... merely . All these things are negatives , con- ditions without which we cannot think to the best purpose , but which lend no active assistance to our thinking . Man is a godlike being . We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable ...
... merely . All these things are negatives , con- ditions without which we cannot think to the best purpose , but which lend no active assistance to our thinking . Man is a godlike being . We launch ourselves in conceit into illimitable ...
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... merely by his senior . He fears he knows not what , a reprimand , a look of lofty contempt , a gesture of summary disdain . He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances , to " gird ques- up the loins of his mind . " He ...
... merely by his senior . He fears he knows not what , a reprimand , a look of lofty contempt , a gesture of summary disdain . He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances , to " gird ques- up the loins of his mind . " He ...
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... mere undistinguished pawn , destined to fill up a square in the chess - board of human society . He wishes to be thought some- thing of , and to be gazed upon . Nor is it merely the wish to be admired that excites him he acts , that he ...
... mere undistinguished pawn , destined to fill up a square in the chess - board of human society . He wishes to be thought some- thing of , and to be gazed upon . Nor is it merely the wish to be admired that excites him he acts , that he ...
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... merely suffered to live that they may furnish manure and nourishment to their betters . On the contrary , each man , ac- cording to this hypothesis , has a sphere in which he may shine , and may contemplate the exercise of his own ...
... merely suffered to live that they may furnish manure and nourishment to their betters . On the contrary , each man , ac- cording to this hypothesis , has a sphere in which he may shine , and may contemplate the exercise of his own ...
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... to thwart it as we may be well assured that , unless it is a mere caprice , it will shew its strength in conquering b ⚫ Henry Fuseli . difficulties , and that all the obstacles that we can 48 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY.
... to thwart it as we may be well assured that , unless it is a mere caprice , it will shew its strength in conquering b ⚫ Henry Fuseli . difficulties , and that all the obstacles that we can 48 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY.
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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.