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... several different professions and arts , is not likely to excel in any . Although there may be fome few exceptions , yet in general it holds , that when the bent of the mind is wholly directed towards fome one object , exclusive , in a ...
... several different professions and arts , is not likely to excel in any . Although there may be fome few exceptions , yet in general it holds , that when the bent of the mind is wholly directed towards fome one object , exclusive , in a ...
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... several objects of mere abstract science . We talk currently of a beautiful tree or flower ; a beautiful poem ; a beautiful character ; and a beautiful theorem in mathematics . HENCE We may eafily perceive , that , among fo great a ...
... several objects of mere abstract science . We talk currently of a beautiful tree or flower ; a beautiful poem ; a beautiful character ; and a beautiful theorem in mathematics . HENCE We may eafily perceive , that , among fo great a ...
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... several paffages of the Claffics , which relate to the public fpeak- ing , and the theatrical entertainments , of the Antients . It appears , from many circum- stances , that the profody both of the Greeks and Romans , was carried much ...
... several paffages of the Claffics , which relate to the public fpeak- ing , and the theatrical entertainments , of the Antients . It appears , from many circum- stances , that the profody both of the Greeks and Romans , was carried much ...
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... several words perfectly clear . But let us tranflate thefe words literally into En- glish , according to the Latin arrangement ; " Dead the nymphs by a cruel fate Daphnis " lamented ; and they become a perfect riddle , in which it is ...
... several words perfectly clear . But let us tranflate thefe words literally into En- glish , according to the Latin arrangement ; " Dead the nymphs by a cruel fate Daphnis " lamented ; and they become a perfect riddle , in which it is ...
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... do not agree in this mode of expreffion . The Greek , Latin , and several other Languages , use declenfion . The English , French , and Italian , do not ; or , at LECT . VIII . at most , use it very STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE . 189.
... do not agree in this mode of expreffion . The Greek , Latin , and several other Languages , use declenfion . The English , French , and Italian , do not ; or , at LECT . VIII . at most , use it very STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE . 189.
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Página 75 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 62 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Página 426 - Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Página 426 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Página 395 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Página 85 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 427 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Página 66 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 79 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Página 416 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...