The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 37-38 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 23
... doubt but that in the plan of reconcilement we are pursu- ing , we shall find some compromise between reason and nature in this particular . It seems , I say , some- thing like a contradiction , that since the promotion of his private ...
... doubt but that in the plan of reconcilement we are pursu- ing , we shall find some compromise between reason and nature in this particular . It seems , I say , some- thing like a contradiction , that since the promotion of his private ...
Page 31
... doubt but that the credit which the false yet dexterous excuses and artifices of a youth receives among his school - fellows , tends very much to reconcile the mind at an early period , to this disgraceful habit , which gathers strength ...
... doubt but that the credit which the false yet dexterous excuses and artifices of a youth receives among his school - fellows , tends very much to reconcile the mind at an early period , to this disgraceful habit , which gathers strength ...
Page 32
... doubt but that it would prove a happy forerunner of reason , and plant in the mind an instinctive an- tipathy to vice , which in all its colours and des- criptions is tinctured with falsehood and deceit . " I am delighted , " continued ...
... doubt but that it would prove a happy forerunner of reason , and plant in the mind an instinctive an- tipathy to vice , which in all its colours and des- criptions is tinctured with falsehood and deceit . " I am delighted , " continued ...
Page 36
... doubts as arise as to the equity of this moral constitution . We shall see enough to convince us that this is the case , if we look into the course and order of things in the natural world . Here we shall find that analogy ( a moral ...
... doubts as arise as to the equity of this moral constitution . We shall see enough to convince us that this is the case , if we look into the course and order of things in the natural world . Here we shall find that analogy ( a moral ...
Page 82
... doubt but that the business shrunk from the test of a fair inquiry ; and the name of the bishop of Poitiers fell very low in the public esteem , while all extolled the candour of his me- tropolitan . This bad success of the conspiracy ...
... doubt but that the business shrunk from the test of a fair inquiry ; and the name of the bishop of Poitiers fell very low in the public esteem , while all extolled the candour of his me- tropolitan . This bad success of the conspiracy ...
Common terms and phrases
affords amusement appear beauty bestow bishop of Poitiers bosom called cerned character choly Christianity circumstances common consequences consider constitution contemplate dear degree delight Derry Eliza Eugenio expected eyes faculties fancy father feelings folly friendship give Grandier ground habit hand happy heard em say heart Henry Waldron honour hope hors d'œuvres human ideas imagination intuitive knowledge judgement judges kind lady laws live Loudun mankind manner means melan melancholy Menecrates ment mind miracles moral Myrtilla nature neral never objects observed OLIVE-BRANCH operation particular passion perceive persons philosophy pleasure present principles proof proportion racter readers reason regard religion revelation Sainte Croix SATURDAY scene scheme sense sensibility sentiments sorrows spirit STANZA suppose sure taste thee Thermæ thing thought tion travelling truth tural virtue Welch mountains whole XXXVII young youth καὶ
Popular passages
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.