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... nature yields up to him its product as his lawful spoil ; sea , air , land , the distant desert sand , the wild and all but impenetrable forest wild , the depths of the ocean , all are placed beneath the sceptre of his authority ; and ...
... nature yields up to him its product as his lawful spoil ; sea , air , land , the distant desert sand , the wild and all but impenetrable forest wild , the depths of the ocean , all are placed beneath the sceptre of his authority ; and ...
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... nature severe ; yet , is there no power in man without its necessity ; and there is no power , therefore , which the arrange- ments of society , or the arrangements of Nature , do not tend to call into play and activity . Nothing in ...
... nature severe ; yet , is there no power in man without its necessity ; and there is no power , therefore , which the arrange- ments of society , or the arrangements of Nature , do not tend to call into play and activity . Nothing in ...
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... Nature's wide and ample domain ; he had scaled the summit of the highest hill , again and again ; he had penetrated to the depths of the lowest ghyll : every dingle , every forest path , every meadow walk had been the scene of ...
... Nature's wide and ample domain ; he had scaled the summit of the highest hill , again and again ; he had penetrated to the depths of the lowest ghyll : every dingle , every forest path , every meadow walk had been the scene of ...
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... Nature . 66 66 Man , " says Dr. Whewell , can construct exquisite machines ; can call in vast powers ; can form extensive combinations , in order to bring about results which he has in view . But in all this he is only taking advantage ...
... Nature . 66 66 Man , " says Dr. Whewell , can construct exquisite machines ; can call in vast powers ; can form extensive combinations , in order to bring about results which he has in view . But in all this he is only taking advantage ...
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... Nature we obtain dominion over Nature ; and thus every accession man makes to his knowledge , enlarges his power , for knowledge is property , and property is power . Ideas , when they come to the mind , enrich it ; and far more good is ...
... Nature we obtain dominion over Nature ; and thus every accession man makes to his knowledge , enlarges his power , for knowledge is property , and property is power . Ideas , when they come to the mind , enrich it ; and far more good is ...
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Página 185 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone ; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long...
Página 159 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the 'will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Página 126 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 74 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Página 74 - ... the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 162 - They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities ; insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain ; not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier. Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the...
Página 154 - If he does not know every thing that has been done in the immeasurable ages that are past, some things may have been done by a God. Thus, unless he knows all things, that is, precludes another Deity by being one himself, he cannot know that the Being whose existence he rejects, does not exist.
Página 23 - I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of my guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knap-sack was my book-case ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life.
Página 107 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Página 161 - He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him.