Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 sivua |
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Sivu 32
... direct our thoughts to the rapid execution of a pur- pose , joined with a steadiness of countenance adapt- ed to what is figuratively called throwing dust in the eyes of the bystander , are of the utmost im- portance to the juggler ...
... direct our thoughts to the rapid execution of a pur- pose , joined with a steadiness of countenance adapt- ed to what is figuratively called throwing dust in the eyes of the bystander , are of the utmost im- portance to the juggler ...
Sivu 64
... direct the energy of his faculties , who has sought on all sides for the materials that should enable him to do that subject justice , who has employed upon it his contemplations by day , and his meditations during the watches of the ...
... direct the energy of his faculties , who has sought on all sides for the materials that should enable him to do that subject justice , who has employed upon it his contemplations by day , and his meditations during the watches of the ...
Sivu 107
... direct my energies to the performance of my task . By degrees how- ever my resolution grows less vigorous , and my ex- ertions relax . I accept any pretence to be let off , and fly into a thousand episodes and eccentricities . But , as ...
... direct my energies to the performance of my task . By degrees how- ever my resolution grows less vigorous , and my ex- ertions relax . I accept any pretence to be let off , and fly into a thousand episodes and eccentricities . But , as ...
Sivu 150
... direct . To describe this last state of mind I know not a better term that can be chosen , than that of reverie . It is of the nature of what I have seen denominated brown study , a species of dozing and drowsiness , in which all men ...
... direct . To describe this last state of mind I know not a better term that can be chosen , than that of reverie . It is of the nature of what I have seen denominated brown study , a species of dozing and drowsiness , in which all men ...
Sivu 153
... direct office of composition . The situation is con- siderably similar of the experimental philosopher , the man who by obstinate and unconquerable ap- plication resolves to wrest from nature her secrets , and apply them to the ...
... direct office of composition . The situation is con- siderably similar of the experimental philosopher , the man who by obstinate and unconquerable ap- plication resolves to wrest from nature her secrets , and apply them to the ...
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Sivu 129 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Sivu 187 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Sivu 328 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
Sivu 128 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Sivu 192 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Sivu 118 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Sivu 213 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Sivu 74 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Sivu 100 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Sivu 29 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.