Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen2,Tema 72Harper, 1844 |
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... ages , however inefficient the talent may have been to explore or explain it . It was obviously a frequent theme in the medi- tations and conversations of Socrates . * It was a favourite one with his pupil Plato , and repeatedly gleams ...
... ages , however inefficient the talent may have been to explore or explain it . It was obviously a frequent theme in the medi- tations and conversations of Socrates . * It was a favourite one with his pupil Plato , and repeatedly gleams ...
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... age that it is so zealously directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and intellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true materials ...
... age that it is so zealously directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and intellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true materials ...
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... ages from studying the same subjects . On the contrary , they have but stimulated the mind to form wiser conjectures , and to obtain more certain knowledge . Still many in every generation stumbled on the threshold ; but their blunders ...
... ages from studying the same subjects . On the contrary , they have but stimulated the mind to form wiser conjectures , and to obtain more certain knowledge . Still many in every generation stumbled on the threshold ; but their blunders ...
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... ages to establish as a certainty , that the sun is in the centre of the planets , and that they , with the earth , re- volve round this luminary ; a fragment of primeval tradition which had descended somehow into the Pythagorean school ...
... ages to establish as a certainty , that the sun is in the centre of the planets , and that they , with the earth , re- volve round this luminary ; a fragment of primeval tradition which had descended somehow into the Pythagorean school ...
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... age and world ; but he has not carried our power of seeing farther . It is our deficiency , and not our merit , that we cannot see what is smaller or finer , or more distant than that which so affects us , or which , from being ...
... age and world ; but he has not carried our power of seeing farther . It is our deficiency , and not our merit , that we cannot see what is smaller or finer , or more distant than that which so affects us , or which , from being ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Página 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Página 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...