The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Nide 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... Nature in Men Of Custom and Education Of Fortune Of Usury Of Youth and Age Of Beauty Of Delays Of Cunning 1835- 302 ... Natural Mind in Man LIVED PAGE BAIN , ALEXANDER 1818- 375 What It Costs viii.
... Nature in Men Of Custom and Education Of Fortune Of Usury Of Youth and Age Of Beauty Of Delays Of Cunning 1835- 302 ... Natural Mind in Man LIVED PAGE BAIN , ALEXANDER 1818- 375 What It Costs viii.
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... nature in its highest processes . They do not take literature and simply compress it . They do not give us condensed milk , but in sym- pathy with that subtle , higher , mysterious action of nature's forces , they work out from the milk ...
... nature in its highest processes . They do not take literature and simply compress it . They do not give us condensed milk , but in sym- pathy with that subtle , higher , mysterious action of nature's forces , they work out from the milk ...
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... Nature and Objects of Science " with which he introduced his essays on the " Intellectual Powers . " He differs from some later writers on similar topics because of his recognition of law in nature as a tendency resulting from an ...
... Nature and Objects of Science " with which he introduced his essays on the " Intellectual Powers . " He differs from some later writers on similar topics because of his recognition of law in nature as a tendency resulting from an ...
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... nature by proper rejections and exclusions not only to discover axioms , but also in the formation of notions ; and it is in this induction that our chief hope lies . " This observation of all possible operations of nature as part of a ...
... nature by proper rejections and exclusions not only to discover axioms , but also in the formation of notions ; and it is in this induction that our chief hope lies . " This observation of all possible operations of nature as part of a ...
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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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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.