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Pagina 33
... Happy he who could understand the causes of things . " - Virgil . 7 " To wonder at nothing is almost the only thing which can make and keep a man happy . " - Horace . & References to Montaigne's Essays , ii . 12 . Part I. , 1 , 2 , c ...
... Happy he who could understand the causes of things . " - Virgil . 7 " To wonder at nothing is almost the only thing which can make and keep a man happy . " - Horace . & References to Montaigne's Essays , ii . 12 . Part I. , 1 , 2 , c ...
Pagina 35
... how all - powerful she is . She makes men happy and sad , healthy and sick , rich and poor ; she compels reason to believe , doubt , and deny ; she blunts the senses , or quickens them ; she has MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD 35.
... how all - powerful she is . She makes men happy and sad , healthy and sick , rich and poor ; she compels reason to believe , doubt , and deny ; she blunts the senses , or quickens them ; she has MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD 35.
Pagina 36
... happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable ; the one covers them with glory , the other with shame . What but this faculty of imagination dispenses reputation , awards respect and veneration to persons ...
... happy , to the envy of reason which can only make its friends miserable ; the one covers them with glory , the other with shame . What but this faculty of imagination dispenses reputation , awards respect and veneration to persons ...
Pagina 43
... happy , and he sees himself miserable . He wants to be perfect , and he sees himself full of imperfections . He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men , and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt ...
... happy , and he sees himself miserable . He wants to be perfect , and he sees himself full of imperfections . He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men , and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt ...
Pagina 47
... happy state ; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures of the state in which we are not . And if we attained to these pleasures , we should not be happy after all ; because we should have other desires natural to this ...
... happy state ; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures of the state in which we are not . And if we attained to these pleasures , we should not be happy after all ; because we should have other desires natural to this ...
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Pagina 247 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Pagina 253 - The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Pagina 240 - Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Pagina 254 - HEARKEN to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, And to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Pagina 242 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Pagina 248 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Pagina 255 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Pagina 255 - Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Pagina 243 - We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Pagina 254 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...