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Page 115
... and the hopes , which the American academy entertain , that the Royal society
, governed by the neutrality of philosophy , will favor it with its encouragement . I
do not yet know certainly what notice will be taken of these communications .
... and the hopes , which the American academy entertain , that the Royal society
, governed by the neutrality of philosophy , will favor it with its encouragement . I
do not yet know certainly what notice will be taken of these communications .
Page 116
All , that can be worth communicating to you in the philosophical and
astronomical way , is published in the numbers of the philosophical transactions
of the Royal society , which come out every half year . What has lately most
engaged ...
All , that can be worth communicating to you in the philosophical and
astronomical way , is published in the numbers of the philosophical transactions
of the Royal society , which come out every half year . What has lately most
engaged ...
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Such was the religion of Ionia and Achaia , which , however it might have been
secretly despised by Socrates , explained by the philosophers , or derided
LITERARY MISCELLANY . 143 ON THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION UPON ...
Such was the religion of Ionia and Achaia , which , however it might have been
secretly despised by Socrates , explained by the philosophers , or derided
LITERARY MISCELLANY . 143 ON THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION UPON ...
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ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD ; With some
account of his writings , philosophical ima provements , & c . . [ Continued from
page 164 . ] I HE delightful fields of philosophical investigation , through which
Rumford ...
ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD ; With some
account of his writings , philosophical ima provements , & c . . [ Continued from
page 164 . ] I HE delightful fields of philosophical investigation , through which
Rumford ...
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In " part I , which treats of the speculative part of moral philosophy , the author “
particularly considers the nature of man , his excellence , and imperfections ; " the
author of our nature , his perfections , and operations ; and the end of our “ being
...
In " part I , which treats of the speculative part of moral philosophy , the author “
particularly considers the nature of man , his excellence , and imperfections ; " the
author of our nature , his perfections , and operations ; and the end of our “ being
...
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Page 91 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 91 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 93 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 78 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 92 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 93 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...
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| Title | The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2 |
| Contributor | Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University) |
| Publisher | W. Hilliard., 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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