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... Ideas , when they come to the mind , enrich it ; and far more good is done for a man when you have imparted to him knowledge and ideas , than when you have given to him gold , although few people perhaps would be able to reason thus ...
... Ideas , when they come to the mind , enrich it ; and far more good is done for a man when you have imparted to him knowledge and ideas , than when you have given to him gold , although few people perhaps would be able to reason thus ...
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... idea of this book is to hold out a hand to those who , by the circumstances around them , are compelled to be self - helpers : for you , my friend , there is , and has been no Univer- sity Hall . The dim religious light of old Colleges ...
... idea of this book is to hold out a hand to those who , by the circumstances around them , are compelled to be self - helpers : for you , my friend , there is , and has been no Univer- sity Hall . The dim religious light of old Colleges ...
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... idea is that the great method of obtaining know- ledge is from books ; but the method of the wise man is to value books , but to rate them at no more than their proper worth . The eye sees ; but there is an inward eye which makes the ...
... idea is that the great method of obtaining know- ledge is from books ; but the method of the wise man is to value books , but to rate them at no more than their proper worth . The eye sees ; but there is an inward eye which makes the ...
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... idea attached to this undoubtedly is , that it is composed of a very callous membrane - that it is an insen- sible piece of stuff , like a glove , or a lady's shoe . Can anything be farther from the truth ? Modern naturalists tell us ...
... idea attached to this undoubtedly is , that it is composed of a very callous membrane - that it is an insen- sible piece of stuff , like a glove , or a lady's shoe . Can anything be farther from the truth ? Modern naturalists tell us ...
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... idea of navigation ? The whirl of the water- mill , or the cotton - mill - all the marvellous instru- ments of optical science : Observation taught man to calculate eclipses - to measure the earth - to tell the size and distance of the ...
... idea of navigation ? The whirl of the water- mill , or the cotton - mill - all the marvellous instru- ments of optical science : Observation taught man to calculate eclipses - to measure the earth - to tell the size and distance of the ...
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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.