Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... truths , which repetition can- not sufficiently impress ; and an inexhaustible store of facts to be considered , more than life is long enough for us to hear , or memory sufficiently powerful to retain . It often happens , too , that a ...
... truths , which repetition can- not sufficiently impress ; and an inexhaustible store of facts to be considered , more than life is long enough for us to hear , or memory sufficiently powerful to retain . It often happens , too , that a ...
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... - ried . Yet it tends , beyond all other pursuits , to check self - conceit , and curb presumption ; at every step which leads to the sublime truths of astro- nomy , we have a clearer view of our own ESSAY II On Astronomy.
... - ried . Yet it tends , beyond all other pursuits , to check self - conceit , and curb presumption ; at every step which leads to the sublime truths of astro- nomy , we have a clearer view of our own ESSAY II On Astronomy.
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... truth and sublimity on his delighted eyes ; the real figure of the moon , and its perfect analogy with the earth , could no longer be doubted : he beheld the satellites of Jupiter , the luminous ring of Saturn , and witnessed the phases ...
... truth and sublimity on his delighted eyes ; the real figure of the moon , and its perfect analogy with the earth , could no longer be doubted : he beheld the satellites of Jupiter , the luminous ring of Saturn , and witnessed the phases ...
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... truth was too important for him to refrain from completing its triumph ; he soon after published the doctrine of Copernicus , concerning the system of the uni- verse , supported by all his own recent observa- tions ; thus nearly ...
... truth was too important for him to refrain from completing its triumph ; he soon after published the doctrine of Copernicus , concerning the system of the uni- verse , supported by all his own recent observa- tions ; thus nearly ...
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... truth , equity , and mercy , which have infused their divine spirit into our human institutions , and both inculcate and inspire the love of God , and of our neighbour . " For if ye love not your brother , whom ye have seen , how can ye ...
... truth , equity , and mercy , which have infused their divine spirit into our human institutions , and both inculcate and inspire the love of God , and of our neighbour . " For if ye love not your brother , whom ye have seen , how can ye ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.