Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - 356 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... superiority , 125 From expected intelligence , 127 In public assemblies , 128 House of Commons , 129 Courts of justice , 129 Churches , 130 Mock conceited importance , 133 Laughter from ignorance and intelligence , 134 From ignorance ...
... superiority , 125 From expected intelligence , 127 In public assemblies , 128 House of Commons , 129 Courts of justice , 129 Churches , 130 Mock conceited importance , 133 Laughter from ignorance and intelligence , 134 From ignorance ...
Pagina 116
... superiority . With respect to suddenness , Lord Bacon to the same effect , says , " And it is clear that in the generality of cases , laughter is occasioned by some sudden cause . " The Second , and more important part of Hobbes's ...
... superiority . With respect to suddenness , Lord Bacon to the same effect , says , " And it is clear that in the generality of cases , laughter is occasioned by some sudden cause . " The Second , and more important part of Hobbes's ...
Pagina 117
... superiority . Assuming then that this pleasure exists , let Hobbes's theory be tried , as all theories ought to be tried , by facts . In Mathews's entertainment , called Jonathan in England , Jonathan an American just arrived with his ...
... superiority . Assuming then that this pleasure exists , let Hobbes's theory be tried , as all theories ought to be tried , by facts . In Mathews's entertainment , called Jonathan in England , Jonathan an American just arrived with his ...
Pagina 118
... superiority , from the consciousness of real liberty , contrasted with this rhodomontade of liberty . This pro- posal to sell a slave would not have excited laughter in America , or in the West Indies . At one of Mr. Mathews's ...
... superiority , from the consciousness of real liberty , contrasted with this rhodomontade of liberty . This pro- posal to sell a slave would not have excited laughter in America , or in the West Indies . At one of Mr. Mathews's ...
Pagina 119
... superiority . - This , therefore seems to confirm the opinion of Hobbes . An old clergyman in the north of England , was . invited to dine with the Earl of Derby , at his noble castle in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . The old man ...
... superiority . - This , therefore seems to confirm the opinion of Hobbes . An old clergyman in the north of England , was . invited to dine with the Earl of Derby , at his noble castle in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . The old man ...
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advocate answered appears beautiful Ben Jonson body cause Chancellor child Christian church common conscious court death demagogue discover distress divine doth duty earth effect endeavours England erroneous error excited exertions favour fear feeling hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hobbes's honour hope human ignorance improvement instantly intelligence John Milton judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice king knowledge laugh laughter lawyer learned liberty live Lord Bacon love of excellence majesty master maxim ment mind mode Muggletonian nature ness never noble Novum Organum opinion passed passions Patriot philosophy Phocion pleasure prejudice principle profession punishment reason reform religion remembers respect Sarah Price says sequence of events serang Sir Edward Coke Sir Matthew Hale Sir Samuel Romilly soul speaking spirit sudden superiority sympathy Tenterden things Thomas Clarkson thought tion Tobit true truth unto wisdom
Populaire passages
Pagina 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Pagina 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Pagina 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Pagina 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Pagina 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Pagina 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Pagina 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Pagina 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Pagina 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Pagina 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...