Ethica: Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and BooksSmith, Elder and Company, 1860 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... human judgment renders slippery and uncertain . " Ipsa consuetudo assen- tiendi periculosa esse videtur et lubrica , " said the pagan philosopher , and the Christian philosopher repeated it after him . " In public affairs there is no ...
... human judgment renders slippery and uncertain . " Ipsa consuetudo assen- tiendi periculosa esse videtur et lubrica , " said the pagan philosopher , and the Christian philosopher repeated it after him . " In public affairs there is no ...
Pagina 31
... laborious investigator rose from their perusal with the satisfaction of having learned more in one hour of the philosophy of human existence than Doctors Seraphic or Beatific could have taught him in OR CHARACTERISTICS . 31.
... laborious investigator rose from their perusal with the satisfaction of having learned more in one hour of the philosophy of human existence than Doctors Seraphic or Beatific could have taught him in OR CHARACTERISTICS . 31.
Pagina 35
... humanity , " we forget it while we watch him catch- ing the lights and shades of a character singularly chameleon - like in its complexion , and preserving the reflections of every hue as vividly as though he were endowed with the ...
... humanity , " we forget it while we watch him catch- ing the lights and shades of a character singularly chameleon - like in its complexion , and preserving the reflections of every hue as vividly as though he were endowed with the ...
Pagina 41
... human experience , in its estimate of human penetration . He saw all the old truths which had held the world in subjection for so many centuries rudely denied . In the general convulsion he recognized the veil which had concealed the ...
... human experience , in its estimate of human penetration . He saw all the old truths which had held the world in subjection for so many centuries rudely denied . In the general convulsion he recognized the veil which had concealed the ...
Pagina 42
... human ignorance . The essence of his philosophy , if philosophy it may be called , is embodied in his Apology for the work of Raymond De Sebond , and is propounded under cover of defending the old position of mysticism that faith is not ...
... human ignorance . The essence of his philosophy , if philosophy it may be called , is embodied in his Apology for the work of Raymond De Sebond , and is propounded under cover of defending the old position of mysticism that faith is not ...
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Pagina 372 - His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power, The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
Pagina 98 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Pagina 371 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 98 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Pagina 98 - I am sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude.
Pagina 157 - Till at the last, his time for fury found, He shoots with sudden vengeance from the ground ; The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears.
Pagina 391 - Nay, I will say more — flattered and encouraged by the Right Honourable Gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.
Pagina 274 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
Pagina 384 - A breach has been made in the constitution — the battlements are dismantled — the citadel is open to the first invader — the walls totter — the constitution is not tenable. What remains then, but for us to stand foremost in the breach, to repair it, or perish in it...
Pagina 96 - ... we do injuriously in thinking to taste better the pure evangelic manna, by seasoning our mouths with the tainted scraps and fragments of an unknown table ; and searching among the verminous and polluted rags dropped overworn from the toiling shoulders of time, with these deformedly to quilt and interlace the entire, the spotless, and undecaying robe of truth, the daughter not of time, but of Heaven, only bred up here below in Christian hearts, between two grave and holy nurses, the doctrine and...