Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author |
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... light by chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weakness , wiser , men become , As they draw near to their eternal home . Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting , overlooking , and taking small account ...
... light by chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weakness , wiser , men become , As they draw near to their eternal home . Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting , overlooking , and taking small account ...
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... light and supercilious to turn him into ridicule . And those who will not be satisfied with the soundness of his matter , expounded , as he is able to expound it , in clear and appropriate terms , will yield him small credit , and ...
... light and supercilious to turn him into ridicule . And those who will not be satisfied with the soundness of his matter , expounded , as he is able to expound it , in clear and appropriate terms , will yield him small credit , and ...
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... light both despicable and ludicrous . But this is not all . Men are not only placed , by the absurd choice of their parents , or an impe- rious concurrence of circumstances , in destinations and employments in which they can never ...
... light both despicable and ludicrous . But this is not all . Men are not only placed , by the absurd choice of their parents , or an impe- rious concurrence of circumstances , in destinations and employments in which they can never ...
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... while they live . The attending to the subject in this point of view , will be found to throw light upon the more extensive prospect of the question to which we will immediately after- wards proceed 76 OF THE DURABILITY OF HUMAN [ ESSAY.
... while they live . The attending to the subject in this point of view , will be found to throw light upon the more extensive prospect of the question to which we will immediately after- wards proceed 76 OF THE DURABILITY OF HUMAN [ ESSAY.
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... light . Nicholas Peiresk was born in the year 1580. His progress in knowledge was so various and unpre- cedented , that , from the time that he was twenty - one years of age , he was universally considered as hold- ing the helm of ...
... light . Nicholas Peiresk was born in the year 1580. His progress in knowledge was so various and unpre- cedented , that , from the time that he was twenty - one years of age , he was universally considered as hold- ing the helm of ...
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Page 129 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 187 - 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 pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 328 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
Page 128 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 192 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Page 118 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 213 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 74 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 100 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Page 29 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.