The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... Object of Science ADAM , MADAME Woman in the Nineteenth Century ADDISON , JOSEPH The Spectator Introduces Himself The Message of the Stars The Extension of the Female Neck The Philosophy of Puns Wit and Wisdom in Literature Women's Men ...
... Object of Science ADAM , MADAME Woman in the Nineteenth Century ADDISON , JOSEPH The Spectator Introduces Himself The Message of the Stars The Extension of the Female Neck The Philosophy of Puns Wit and Wisdom in Literature Women's Men ...
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... object of science was dictated by a deep consciousness of the supernatural origin of nature , and it has served to ... Objects of Science " with which he introduced his essays on the " Intellectual Powers . " He differs from some later ...
... object of science was dictated by a deep consciousness of the supernatural origin of nature , and it has served to ... Objects of Science " with which he introduced his essays on the " Intellectual Powers . " He differs from some later ...
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... their ease of style and the lucidity of the language in which they express ideas which some writers on similar topics succeed in making incompre- hensible . W. V. B. B THE GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECTS OF SCIENCE Y THE 2 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
... their ease of style and the lucidity of the language in which they express ideas which some writers on similar topics succeed in making incompre- hensible . W. V. B. B THE GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECTS OF SCIENCE Y THE 2 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
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David Josiah Brewer. B THE GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECTS OF SCIENCE Y THE will of the Almighty Creator , all things in nature have been placed in certain relations to each other , which are fixed and uniform . In other words , they have ...
David Josiah Brewer. B THE GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECTS OF SCIENCE Y THE will of the Almighty Creator , all things in nature have been placed in certain relations to each other , which are fixed and uniform . In other words , they have ...
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... objects of philosophical inquiry . The term . final cause , again , has been applied to a subject entirely differ- ent ; namely , to the appearances of unity of ... object of all science is to ascertain these established 6 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
... objects of philosophical inquiry . The term . final cause , again , has been applied to a subject entirely differ- ent ; namely , to the appearances of unity of ... object of all science is to ascertain these established 6 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
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Seite 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Seite 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Seite 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Seite 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Seite 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Seite 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Seite 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Seite 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Seite 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.