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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... against common sense , to say that the ocean dows round the earth , or that the earth was globular , or that Asia was ts large as Europe . - Melp . 1. iv . c . 36 . cover ; and no one can now start an absurdity OF THE WORLD . 21.
... against common sense , to say that the ocean dows round the earth , or that the earth was globular , or that Asia was ts large as Europe . - Melp . 1. iv . c . 36 . cover ; and no one can now start an absurdity OF THE WORLD . 21.
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... sense or sound judgment . But however adverse to these , still it has repeatedly appeared , and is very opera- tive in many individual cases at this moment . We may , without any abusive meaning , attach the epithet of irrational to it ...
... sense or sound judgment . But however adverse to these , still it has repeatedly appeared , and is very opera- tive in many individual cases at this moment . We may , without any abusive meaning , attach the epithet of irrational to it ...
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... senses , and of that by which they are not affected . Nothing exists because we are conscious of it , nor depends upon our acquaintance with it , nor ceases to be or never has been , be- cause it has not become a subject of our ...
... senses , and of that by which they are not affected . Nothing exists because we are conscious of it , nor depends upon our acquaintance with it , nor ceases to be or never has been , be- cause it has not become a subject of our ...
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... sense and graceful ease , may be admitted by the most cautious reasoner in its undefined generality : " There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy , Horatio ! " But with an impression of this sort we ...
... sense and graceful ease , may be admitted by the most cautious reasoner in its undefined generality : " There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy , Horatio ! " But with an impression of this sort we ...
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... sense they imply the acting powers of nature , the direction or reg- ulation of these powers in their operation , and the effects pro- duced by them . * " Laws of nature . In this phrase are included all properties of the portions of ...
... sense they imply the acting powers of nature , the direction or reg- ulation of these powers in their operation , and the effects pro- duced by them . * " Laws of nature . In this phrase are included all properties of the portions of ...
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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...