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Pagina 5
... considerably dispel the mist through which they always look at present objects . Coarse matter - of - fact reasoners contend , we are aware , that nothing short of the dread of personal punishment can deter the powerful from crime . But ...
... considerably dispel the mist through which they always look at present objects . Coarse matter - of - fact reasoners contend , we are aware , that nothing short of the dread of personal punishment can deter the powerful from crime . But ...
Pagina 6
... considerably diminished , when it is seen with how little regard to truth and justice fame is sometimes bestowed . For if the mind be warmed by the reflection that , in spite of time and death , it shall leave the remembrance of its ...
... considerably diminished , when it is seen with how little regard to truth and justice fame is sometimes bestowed . For if the mind be warmed by the reflection that , in spite of time and death , it shall leave the remembrance of its ...
Pagina 38
... considerable length ; and under their guidance , and that of other chiefs , the Egyptians planted colonies in Greece and in the countries bordering on the Euxine . Nechos fitted out a fleet which circumnavigated the whole of Africa ...
... considerable length ; and under their guidance , and that of other chiefs , the Egyptians planted colonies in Greece and in the countries bordering on the Euxine . Nechos fitted out a fleet which circumnavigated the whole of Africa ...
Pagina 41
... considerable progress in the knowledge of chemistry when they left Egypt , and that they acquired what they knew in that country . This is much better than pretending that the Egyptians , and all other nations , derived their sciences ...
... considerable progress in the knowledge of chemistry when they left Egypt , and that they acquired what they knew in that country . This is much better than pretending that the Egyptians , and all other nations , derived their sciences ...
Pagina 42
... considerable ingenuity ; the origin of animal worship is plausibly derived ; but we are fully persuaded , not- withstanding , that the author has transposed the history of the case , and that animals were worshipped from gratitude upon ...
... considerable ingenuity ; the origin of animal worship is plausibly derived ; but we are fully persuaded , not- withstanding , that the author has transposed the history of the case , and that animals were worshipped from gratitude upon ...
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Pagina 240 - tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. 'Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Pagina 434 - Her lot is on you — silent tears to weep, And patient smiles to wear through suffering's hour, And sumless riches, from affection's deep, To pour on broken reeds — a wasted shower ! And to make idols, and to find them clay, And to bewail that worship. Therefore pray...
Pagina 242 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 48 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars; tumultuous boil the waves...
Pagina 347 - It is only within the last two or three years that the East Indians have begun to unite among themselves for public objects.
Pagina 483 - Instruction for the purpose of ascertaining the state of Public Education, and of the Public Institutions designed for its promotion, and of considering, and from time to time submitting to government, the suggestion of such measures as it may appear expedient to adopt, with a view to the better instruction of the people, to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, including the sciences and arts of Europe, and to the improvement of their moral character.
Pagina 434 - tis a holy hour. The quiet room Seems like a temple, while yon soft lamp sheds A faint and starry radiance, through the gloom And the sweet stillness, down on...
Pagina 240 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children.
Pagina 434 - Her lot is on you ! — to be found untired, Watching the stars out by the bed of pain, With a pale cheek, and yet a brow inspired, And a true heart of hope, though hope be vain ! Meekly to bear with wrong, to cheer decay, And, oh ! to love through all things — therefore pray.
Pagina 519 - ... contribute much to the clearing of some of our modern differences in religion ; by unmasking many wild errors, that shelter themselves under the disguise of affected phrases ; which• being philosophically unfolded, and rendered according to the genuine and natural importance of words, will appear to be inconsistencies and contradictions. And several of those pretended mysterious profound notions, expressed in great swelling words, whereby some men set up for reputation, being this way examined,...