Sacred History of the World Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen2Longman, 1834 |
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... opinions , which can have no authority in themselves ; and which ought to have no influence , but in proportion as they may be just and rational : They are now submitted to the public eye , simply as the personal thoughts and feelings ...
... opinions , which can have no authority in themselves ; and which ought to have no influence , but in proportion as they may be just and rational : They are now submitted to the public eye , simply as the personal thoughts and feelings ...
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... opinions of the Author may be found to be expressed , it has been in no part his desire or meaning to dictate to any one . But to have used qualifying expressions to every sentiment he wrote , would have loaded the pages with such ...
... opinions of the Author may be found to be expressed , it has been in no part his desire or meaning to dictate to any one . But to have used qualifying expressions to every sentiment he wrote , would have loaded the pages with such ...
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... opinion must , therefore , be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental in- quiry more than on the present ; for the greatness of the theme will of itself preclude the adequate competency in any one to treat fully or ...
... opinion must , therefore , be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental in- quiry more than on the present ; for the greatness of the theme will of itself preclude the adequate competency in any one to treat fully or ...
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... opinions of the antient philosophers were more often chimeras , that would now disgrace any that were still in their nurseries , than the probable conjecture of reasoning men . But their errors and follies have not deterred 8 later ages ...
... opinions of the antient philosophers were more often chimeras , that would now disgrace any that were still in their nurseries , than the probable conjecture of reasoning men . But their errors and follies have not deterred 8 later ages ...
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... opinions may yet be uttered : but all such will be soon discarded . Whatever is erroneous , has no substantive vitality : it is perishable by its own nature , and will always be but the ephemeron of its day . It is born but to die : the ...
... opinions may yet be uttered : but all such will be soon discarded . Whatever is erroneous , has no substantive vitality : it is perishable by its own nature , and will always be but the ephemeron of its day . It is born but to die : the ...
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Adam and Eve agencies altho ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character Cicero civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity Deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian Divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact feelings females globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happiness Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish kind knowlege land laws LETTER living males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral Mount Seir mountains nations never ocean operation ourselves peculiar perceive perfect Phenicians Plato pleasure Pliny Plut Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks Sacred History says sensations soil soul spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought thro tion tribes truth vegetation XXVII
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Página 29 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Página 281 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Página 223 - 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 284 - 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...
Página 518 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Página 224 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 240 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG To the Cuckoo O BLITHE new-comer!
Página 210 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : Then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, And be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Página 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.