The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue: Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians, Pantheists and Physiphilanthropists, of Various Ages and Climes ...G. Vale, 1849 - Ethics |
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... Nature's chain to strike , On Self , which changing never quits the chain In life or death , transmits or joy or pain . ( ave 842 ( 1055 ) 1..3 parts smere p. On man or insects , jars the chain alike On man or insects , jars the chain ...
... Nature's chain to strike , On Self , which changing never quits the chain In life or death , transmits or joy or pain . ( ave 842 ( 1055 ) 1..3 parts smere p. On man or insects , jars the chain alike On man or insects , jars the chain ...
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... Nature's chain to strike , On Self , which changing never quits the chain In life or death , transmits or joy or pain . 3 parta THE BIBLE OF NATURE , AND SUBSTANCE OF. On man or insects , jars the chain alike FROM DRYDEN S OVID .
... Nature's chain to strike , On Self , which changing never quits the chain In life or death , transmits or joy or pain . 3 parta THE BIBLE OF NATURE , AND SUBSTANCE OF. On man or insects , jars the chain alike FROM DRYDEN S OVID .
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... never wants materials . Seneca . The suppressor of a useful truth , is as guilty as the pro- pagator of an injurious falsehood . Nature is made better by no mean , But Nature makes that mean ; - Art does mend Nature , change it rather ...
... never wants materials . Seneca . The suppressor of a useful truth , is as guilty as the pro- pagator of an injurious falsehood . Nature is made better by no mean , But Nature makes that mean ; - Art does mend Nature , change it rather ...
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... never was ! What feels the body , when the soul expires , By time corrupted , or consum'd by fires ? Nor dies the spirit , but new life repeats In other forms , and only changes seats . Then Death , so call'd , is but old matter drest ...
... never was ! What feels the body , when the soul expires , By time corrupted , or consum'd by fires ? Nor dies the spirit , but new life repeats In other forms , and only changes seats . Then Death , so call'd , is but old matter drest ...
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... these , which all contain , And into these are all resolv'd again : Thus are their figures never at a stand , But chang'd by Nature's innovating hand ; · All things are alter'd , nothing is destroy'd , 14 THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY .
... these , which all contain , And into these are all resolv'd again : Thus are their figures never at a stand , But chang'd by Nature's innovating hand ; · All things are alter'd , nothing is destroy'd , 14 THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY .
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Page 107 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 126 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 147 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.