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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... thoughts have trac'd their way . What know I more , that's worth the knowing ? What have I done , that's worth the doing ? What have I sought , that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run ? THE ...
... thoughts have trac'd their way . What know I more , that's worth the knowing ? What have I done , that's worth the doing ? What have I sought , that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run ? THE ...
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... thoughts , soft wishes , gay desire , And warm Favonius fans the amorous fire ; First through the birds the active flame doth move ; Who with their mates sit down , and sing , and love ; They gratefully their tuneful voice employ At thy ...
... thoughts , soft wishes , gay desire , And warm Favonius fans the amorous fire ; First through the birds the active flame doth move ; Who with their mates sit down , and sing , and love ; They gratefully their tuneful voice employ At thy ...
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... thought Do no particular seat , and part control , But are a vital habit of the whole ; In Greek call'd harmony , and that from thence Flows all our reason , life , and thought , and sense But often when these visible limbs do smart ...
... thought Do no particular seat , and part control , But are a vital habit of the whole ; In Greek call'd harmony , and that from thence Flows all our reason , life , and thought , and sense But often when these visible limbs do smart ...
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... thoughts do bid us weep ? Is't not a quiet state , and soft as sleep . The furies , Cerberus , black hell , and flames , Are airy fancies all , mere empty names . But whilst we live , the fear of dreadful pains For wicked deeds , the ...
... thoughts do bid us weep ? Is't not a quiet state , and soft as sleep . The furies , Cerberus , black hell , and flames , Are airy fancies all , mere empty names . But whilst we live , the fear of dreadful pains For wicked deeds , the ...
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... thought no head like his deserv'd the crown . This made them seek for laws , this led their choice To rulers ; power was given by public voice . For men worn out , and tir'd by constant strife , At last began to wish an easy life , And ...
... thought no head like his deserv'd the crown . This made them seek for laws , this led their choice To rulers ; power was given by public voice . For men worn out , and tir'd by constant strife , At last began to wish an easy life , And ...
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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.