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... sort which relates to our duty , and conduces to our happiness . In these inquiries , therefore , wherever I perceive any glimmering of truth before me , I readily pursue and endeavour to trace it to its source , without any reserve or ...
... sort which relates to our duty , and conduces to our happiness . In these inquiries , therefore , wherever I perceive any glimmering of truth before me , I readily pursue and endeavour to trace it to its source , without any reserve or ...
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... sort of knowledge . L. ( 2 U ) . An imperfect understanding is either unable to acquire any knowledge , which is exceeding rare , or unable to acquire some particular knowledge , or unable at some particular time to acquire knowledge ...
... sort of knowledge . L. ( 2 U ) . An imperfect understanding is either unable to acquire any knowledge , which is exceeding rare , or unable to acquire some particular knowledge , or unable at some particular time to acquire knowledge ...
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... sort envy the state of the honest plowman and other mechanics ; for the one , when he was at his work would merrily sing , and the plowman whistle some self - pleasing tune , and yet their work both proceeded and succeed- ed . But he ...
... sort envy the state of the honest plowman and other mechanics ; for the one , when he was at his work would merrily sing , and the plowman whistle some self - pleasing tune , and yet their work both proceeded and succeed- ed . But he ...
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... sort , to be ascribed to the collapse atten- dant upon the cessation of the stimulant of ambition ? When the object is attained , does the zeal die ? The condemned convicts , said the Ordinary of Newgate , are very religious . I always ...
... sort , to be ascribed to the collapse atten- dant upon the cessation of the stimulant of ambition ? When the object is attained , does the zeal die ? The condemned convicts , said the Ordinary of Newgate , are very religious . I always ...
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... sort of such as evidently were born to study , and love learning for itself ; not for lucre or any other end , but the service of God and of truth , and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have ...
... sort of such as evidently were born to study , and love learning for itself ; not for lucre or any other end , but the service of God and of truth , and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have ...
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Page 236 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 107 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and...
Page 43 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 188 - And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said. There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.
Page 123 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 145 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her: 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy...
Page 130 - We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs...
Page 119 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot...
Page 121 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 71 - But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head", Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led. There would he wander wild, till Phoebus' beam, Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team.