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... labours of Hercules , Bacchus , Theseus , Jason , & c . are nothing but astronomical allegorics . The heavenly personifications , and the earthly deifications of the Greek poets and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally ...
... labours of Hercules , Bacchus , Theseus , Jason , & c . are nothing but astronomical allegorics . The heavenly personifications , and the earthly deifications of the Greek poets and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally ...
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... labours to establish an ancient monarchy in IRAN or Persia , long before the Assyrian monarchy . You may call the people of this ancient monarchy as you please , Hindus , Cuscans , Culdees , or Scythians . The language of this first ...
... labours to establish an ancient monarchy in IRAN or Persia , long before the Assyrian monarchy . You may call the people of this ancient monarchy as you please , Hindus , Cuscans , Culdees , or Scythians . The language of this first ...
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... labour - saving contrivance . Hence the patent - office - that great repository of Jonathan's practical clev- erness - is already overcharged with its fruits . But call upon him for a specification of these very plans - for the ...
... labour - saving contrivance . Hence the patent - office - that great repository of Jonathan's practical clev- erness - is already overcharged with its fruits . But call upon him for a specification of these very plans - for the ...
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... labours of the philosopher , confined to the learned , nor like the discoveries of the mathematician , enveloped in abstruse science . They were not like the exhibitions of the orator , circumscribed by the extent of his audience , nor ...
... labours of the philosopher , confined to the learned , nor like the discoveries of the mathematician , enveloped in abstruse science . They were not like the exhibitions of the orator , circumscribed by the extent of his audience , nor ...
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... labour . " Mente diu versata , manu celeranda repenti Arsque laborque operis gratâ sic fraude latebit : Maxima deinde erit ars , nihil artis inesse videri . ” The establishment of Mr. Morse's academy shews that the artists 82 [ August ...
... labour . " Mente diu versata , manu celeranda repenti Arsque laborque operis gratâ sic fraude latebit : Maxima deinde erit ars , nihil artis inesse videri . ” The establishment of Mr. Morse's academy shews that the artists 82 [ August ...
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Page 158 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 323 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Page 465 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 169 - ... the minority will extend to far greater numbers, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. In such a popular persecution, individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable condition than in any other. Under a cruel prince they have the balmy compassion of mankind to assuage the smart of their wounds; they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings: but those who are...
Page 458 - Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 357 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.
Page 459 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 176 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are ' never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
Page 334 - Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet
Page 60 - ... lawyers upon the different imperfections and improvements of the laws of different countries, should have given occasion to an inquiry into what were the natural rules of justice, independent of all positive institution. It might have been expected, that these reasonings should have led them to aim at establishing a system of what might properly be called Natural Jurisprudence, or a theory of the principles which ought to run through^ and to be the foundation of the laws of all nations.