The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's LifeBelknap and Hamersley, 1837 - 467 sivua |
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Sivu vii
... philosopher , linguist , and physician was , no doubt , the result of his perseverance in practising them , rather than of any extraordinary originality of genius , or splendid endowments of nature . Among the rare excellences of the ...
... philosopher , linguist , and physician was , no doubt , the result of his perseverance in practising them , rather than of any extraordinary originality of genius , or splendid endowments of nature . Among the rare excellences of the ...
Sivu x
... philosophers of our own country , from Sir I. Newton , Clarke , Barrow , and Locke , that I cannot , without pain , hear what appears to me a principle irrefragably esta- blished , treated with skepticism , and especially with such ...
... philosophers of our own country , from Sir I. Newton , Clarke , Barrow , and Locke , that I cannot , without pain , hear what appears to me a principle irrefragably esta- blished , treated with skepticism , and especially with such ...
Sivu xvi
... philosopher , the philanthropist , and the Christian . And the profession of medicine is here seen to be honoured in the life of one of its most enlightened and zealous votaries , who superadded to his high literary and professional ...
... philosopher , the philanthropist , and the Christian . And the profession of medicine is here seen to be honoured in the life of one of its most enlightened and zealous votaries , who superadded to his high literary and professional ...
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... philosophers , who borrowed it from them , perpetually appeal to this position . It was current , however , among many of the philosophers of Greece at a much earlier period ; for Democritus expressly asserted , according to Diogenes ...
... philosophers , who borrowed it from them , perpetually appeal to this position . It was current , however , among many of the philosophers of Greece at a much earlier period ; for Democritus expressly asserted , according to Diogenes ...
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... philosophers of antiquity into a great variety of shapes ; and hence , in some form or other , is to be traced through most of the Grecian schools , whether of the Ionic or Italic sect - or , in other words , whether derived from Thales ...
... philosophers of antiquity into a great variety of shapes ; and hence , in some form or other , is to be traced through most of the Grecian schools , whether of the Ionic or Italic sect - or , in other words , whether derived from Thales ...
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Sivu 427 - his bed ; walks up and down with me; Puts on his pretty looks ; repeats his words ; Remembers me of all his gracious parts ; Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form :— Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Sivu 429 - shady scene. Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude : Ч is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores
Sivu 454 - a sheet of white paper, without characters of any kind, becomes furnished with that vast store of ideas, the materials of wisdom and knowledge, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? The
Sivu 336 - • comes the mind by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety ? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge ? 1
Sivu 379 - —It is manifest that a great part of common language and of common behaviour over the world is formed upon the supposition of SUCH A MORAL FACULTY; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or divine reason; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding or a perception of the heart, or, which seems the truth, as including
Sivu 405 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With stores of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.
Sivu 330 - that brings death to the people. His sword is a green meteor half extinguished. His face is without form and dark. He sighed thrice over the hero ; and thrice the winds of the night roared around. Many were his words to Oscar. He slowly vanished, like a mist that melts on the sunny hill.
Sivu xiii - They are sparks which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest remedy against scandal is, to live it down by perseverance in well-doing ; and by praying to God that he would cure the distempered minds of those who traduce and injure us.
Sivu 447 - peaceful plains ? Do 1 meet thee with a spear on thy cloud, spirit of dismal Loda ? Why then dost thou frown on me ! Why shake thine airy spear? Thou frownest in vain : I never fled from the mighty in war; and shall the sons of the wind frighten the king of Morven ? No—he knows the
Sivu 360 - all minds? I assert as well as they, that since we are affected from without, we must allow powers to be without in a being distinct from ourselves. So far we are agreed. But then we differ as to the kind of this powerful being. I will have it to be spirit: