The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 37-38 |
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... condition of all that regards our nature ; to contemplate the decline and dissolution of the osten- sible objects of all our cares , affections , and friend- ships ; then to look inwards , and regard the re- volutions of our own bosoms ...
... condition of all that regards our nature ; to contemplate the decline and dissolution of the osten- sible objects of all our cares , affections , and friend- ships ; then to look inwards , and regard the re- volutions of our own bosoms ...
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... condition of universal change was designed as a source of consolation to suffering hu- manity , it was also designed to be a perpetual les- son of instruction , and a gradual preparation for that last great change to which at length we ...
... condition of universal change was designed as a source of consolation to suffering hu- manity , it was also designed to be a perpetual les- son of instruction , and a gradual preparation for that last great change to which at length we ...
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... condition , more forcibly excite our attention , and rouse a more ani- mated sense of the uncertainty of human affairs . When we reflect on the sinking fortunes of nations , and the sudden fall of mighty kingdoms , we are im- pressed ...
... condition , more forcibly excite our attention , and rouse a more ani- mated sense of the uncertainty of human affairs . When we reflect on the sinking fortunes of nations , and the sudden fall of mighty kingdoms , we are im- pressed ...
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... condition . The portio dura of the au- ditory nerve was perfect , but the portio mollis had become completely ossified ; and this was , our ana- tomist assured us , a peculiarity he had always disco- vered in maids above the age of five ...
... condition . The portio dura of the au- ditory nerve was perfect , but the portio mollis had become completely ossified ; and this was , our ana- tomist assured us , a peculiarity he had always disco- vered in maids above the age of five ...
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... condition , that the whole is an animal ? But little more than this Indian could know of the clock , did sir Isaac Newton know of the great sys- tem of the universe . More of its dependencies , con- nections , and relations , he ...
... condition , that the whole is an animal ? But little more than this Indian could know of the clock , did sir Isaac Newton know of the great sys- tem of the universe . More of its dependencies , con- nections , and relations , he ...
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Page 7 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 272 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 37 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Page 93 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Page 38 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page viii - Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 93 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 270 - Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
Page 118 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
Page 186 - We know, indeed, several of the general laws of matter; and a great part of the natural behaviour of living agents is reducible to general laws. But we know, in a manner, nothing, by what laws storms and tempests, earthquakes, famine, pestilence, become the instruments of destruction to mankind.