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Page xiv
... give a hint to many who may perhaps feel thankful for it when I am removed to a state where personal vanity can have no access , and the opinion of the world can be no longer of any importance . I should wish it to close the subsequent ...
... give a hint to many who may perhaps feel thankful for it when I am removed to a state where personal vanity can have no access , and the opinion of the world can be no longer of any importance . I should wish it to close the subsequent ...
Page xv
... give , and such as is fit for guilty mortals to receive with humble gratitude and reverence . " The parallel between these great and good men , devoted as they were to the work of doing good to the bodies and souls of their fellow - men ...
... give , and such as is fit for guilty mortals to receive with humble gratitude and reverence . " The parallel between these great and good men , devoted as they were to the work of doing good to the bodies and souls of their fellow - men ...
Page 30
... give , For his vast form embraces all that live . This doctrine has not been confined to ancient times , or to the boundaries of India and the republics of Greece and Rome ; it has descended through every age , and has its votaries even ...
... give , For his vast form embraces all that live . This doctrine has not been confined to ancient times , or to the boundaries of India and the republics of Greece and Rome ; it has descended through every age , and has its votaries even ...
Page 32
... give birth to a multiplicity of concrete forms , under which alone we are capable of contemplating it : for no effort has hitherto succeeded in ultimately enucleating the compound and tracing it to its elementary particles . We may ...
... give birth to a multiplicity of concrete forms , under which alone we are capable of contemplating it : for no effort has hitherto succeeded in ultimately enucleating the compound and tracing it to its elementary particles . We may ...
Page 33
... give it from the first the general order and harmony and perfection that prevail at present ? or did he merely produce a vast central and aggregate chaos , as the rude basis of future worlds , the parent - stock or storehouse from which ...
... give it from the first the general order and harmony and perfection that prevail at present ? or did he merely produce a vast central and aggregate chaos , as the rude basis of future worlds , the parent - stock or storehouse from which ...
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The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a ... John Mason Good Affichage du livre entier - 1837 |
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Page xii - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Page 435 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, . Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 436 - Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance haiL Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Page 355 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 39 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 46 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages : But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them would be changed.
Page 341 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 335 - God and immortality, without the help of metaphysics : for they say there is a Great King, who made them, who dwells in a glorious country to the southward of them ; and that the souls of the good shall go thither, where they shall live again. Their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico. Their sacrifice is their first fruits. The first and fattest buck they kill goeth to the fire, where he is all burnt, with a mournful ditty of him...
Page 408 - Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there, And piety with 'wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
Page 453 - The flame was dim and distant; the moon hid her red face in the east. A blast came from the mountain, on its wings was the spirit of Loda. He came to his place in his terrors, and shook his dusky spear. His eyes appear like flames in his dark face; his voice is like distant thunder.