The Southern Review, Volume 4A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... true time , nor indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct . " May I be permitted , Sir William , to ask you , ( says our author ) of what nation do you think these astronomers were ? Do you suppose ...
... true time , nor indeed were they wrong at all if a tradition mentioned by Plutarch be correct . " May I be permitted , Sir William , to ask you , ( says our author ) of what nation do you think these astronomers were ? Do you suppose ...
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... Cycle , who measured an arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon , and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly 14 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
... Cycle , who measured an arc of the meridian , and the distances of our earth from the sun and the moon , and who ascertained so nearly the true length of the solar year , were assuredly 14 [ August , Higgins ' Celtic Druids .
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the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this ...
the true length of the solar year , were assuredly people who preceded the Druids , but bequeathed to them no part of their mantle , when they disappeared from the earth ; for there is no evidence that the Druids possessed this ...
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... true of all early accounts . There is no certainty belonging to them ; nothing that will serve as a ground work of safe and assured conclusion . As Voltaire says , we are like Ixion , we are in expectation of embracing truth , and we ...
... true of all early accounts . There is no certainty belonging to them ; nothing that will serve as a ground work of safe and assured conclusion . As Voltaire says , we are like Ixion , we are in expectation of embracing truth , and we ...
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... true . Abaris . ( p . 123. ) Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod . Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by Jamblichus , ( lib . i . ch . 28 , ) he was ...
... true . Abaris . ( p . 123. ) Called Scythian by Suidas , but from the accounts of him by Hecateus in Diod . Sic . ( lib . iii . ch . 11 , ) and by Porphyry in his Life of Pythagoras , and by Jamblichus , ( lib . i . ch . 28 , ) he was ...
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Page 156 - ... 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 160 - ... outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 463 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age 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.
Page 456 - Art thou called being a servant '( care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 257 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 321 - 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 332 - ... though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!
Page 457 - 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 213 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Page 355 - 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.