Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... example , that from the works of nature we infer the ex- istence and the attributes of the Almighty Creator . But in judging of the connection between any two individual events in that order of things which he has established , our idea ...
... example , that from the works of nature we infer the ex- istence and the attributes of the Almighty Creator . But in judging of the connection between any two individual events in that order of things which he has established , our idea ...
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... example , one medicine acts upon the stomach , another on the bowels , a third on the kidneys , a fourth on the skin ... examples of this last application of it is to be found in the manner in which Harvey was led to the discovery of the ...
... example , one medicine acts upon the stomach , another on the bowels , a third on the kidneys , a fourth on the skin ... examples of this last application of it is to be found in the manner in which Harvey was led to the discovery of the ...
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... example , affected with a dis- ease recovers under the use of a particular remedy ; a second is affected with the same disease , and uses this remedy without any benefit ; while a third recovers under a very different remedy , or ...
... example , affected with a dis- ease recovers under the use of a particular remedy ; a second is affected with the same disease , and uses this remedy without any benefit ; while a third recovers under a very different remedy , or ...
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... examples , but those accustomed to attend to public affairs will find little diffi- culty in fixing upon remarkable instances in which measures have been recommended by wise and able men , as calculated to lead to important benefits ...
... examples , but those accustomed to attend to public affairs will find little diffi- culty in fixing upon remarkable instances in which measures have been recommended by wise and able men , as calculated to lead to important benefits ...
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... example , she acts as a drag upon the wheel of progress . In France woman uncon- sciously revenges herself for not having been suffered to partici- pate in the benefits of the Revolution by exerting a retrograde , ultraconservative ...
... example , she acts as a drag upon the wheel of progress . In France woman uncon- sciously revenges herself for not having been suffered to partici- pate in the benefits of the Revolution by exerting a retrograde , ultraconservative ...
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action admiration Æneid animal appear Aristotle atheism Augustus Cæsar beautiful body born called cause character Civil and Moral dæmon death delight divine doth effect envy epic epic poetry Essays Civil Euripides evil expression fable feel follow fortune genius gentleman give greatest hand happened happiness hath heart Homer honor Honoré de Balzac human ideas imitation intellect kind king learning live look man's manner matter Matthew Arnold means mind nature never night Novum Organum object obolus observed Ovid particular passion perfect persons philosophy Plato pleasure poem poet poetry produce reader reason relations religion respect riches Roger de Coverley saith sense Sir Roger Sophocles soul speak species Spectator Sufi thee things thou thought tion tragedy true truth usury verse virtue whole wise woman Wood Thrush words writing
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Seite 231 - 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 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Seite 232 - 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 xvii - 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 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 307 - 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 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Seite 97 - 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 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Seite 334 - 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 nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...