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... philosopher could give the King . Dryden marks the progress towards excellence in the following couplet : - is " What the child admired , " The youth endeavoured , and the man acquired . ” It is interesting to follow great authors or ...
... philosopher could give the King . Dryden marks the progress towards excellence in the following couplet : - is " What the child admired , " The youth endeavoured , and the man acquired . ” It is interesting to follow great authors or ...
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... philosophers , naturalists , geologists , bear names everywhere known and honored ; their works are in every library , and have taken their place as standards and authorities in their several depart- ments ; and is there any reason why ...
... philosophers , naturalists , geologists , bear names everywhere known and honored ; their works are in every library , and have taken their place as standards and authorities in their several depart- ments ; and is there any reason why ...
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... philosopher : เ Let vules go sarching vur and nigh , We bides at whoam , my dog and I. nd became there , not only wiser , but more charitable , for the oftener one sees the better one knows , and the better one knows the more one loves ...
... philosopher : เ Let vules go sarching vur and nigh , We bides at whoam , my dog and I. nd became there , not only wiser , but more charitable , for the oftener one sees the better one knows , and the better one knows the more one loves ...
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... philosopher , with whom he was most intimately acquainted , who gave him that force and sublimity of sentiment , superior to all the demagogues , who in short formed him to that admirable dignity of manners , was Anaxa- goras the ...
... philosopher , with whom he was most intimately acquainted , who gave him that force and sublimity of sentiment , superior to all the demagogues , who in short formed him to that admirable dignity of manners , was Anaxa- goras the ...
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... philosophers laid down . As- tronomy - now exhibiting the maximum of perfection , with the largest and most exact power of predicting future phenomena , which human science has ever attained - was pronounced by Socrates ( always spoken ...
... philosophers laid down . As- tronomy - now exhibiting the maximum of perfection , with the largest and most exact power of predicting future phenomena , which human science has ever attained - was pronounced by Socrates ( always spoken ...
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Sida 22 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Sida 94 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Sida 109 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Sida 7 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Sida 68 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Sida 81 - The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, The Earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man ! Some had expired in fight, — the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plague and famine some...
Sida 65 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Sida 97 - Oh! change — oh! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment there so low, So agonized, and now Beyond the stars! Oh! change, stupendous change! There lies the soulless clod; The sun eternal breaks, The new immortal wakes — Wakes with his God.
Sida 208 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Sida 83 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.