Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - 356 páginas |
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Página vi
... considers cautiously , 81 3. Knowledge of obstacles , 81 4. He uses vantage ground to diffuse good , 83 5. He advances cautiously , 85 6. If necessary he encounters dangers , 85 7. He is content with the approbation of the intelligent ...
... considers cautiously , 81 3. Knowledge of obstacles , 81 4. He uses vantage ground to diffuse good , 83 5. He advances cautiously , 85 6. If necessary he encounters dangers , 85 7. He is content with the approbation of the intelligent ...
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... considers h health , 249 2. He considers the fitness of his intellect for th profession of the law , 249 3. He duly considers his motives for engaging i the profession , 249 4. He is careful of his health , 250 5. He is industrious ...
... considers h health , 249 2. He considers the fitness of his intellect for th profession of the law , 249 3. He duly considers his motives for engaging i the profession , 249 4. He is careful of his health , 250 5. He is industrious ...
Página ix
... considers how his profession may tend to warp his mind , 256 13. He is cautious that the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong does not lower his high sentiments , or weaken his love of truth , 257 14. He does not suffer himself to ...
... considers how his profession may tend to warp his mind , 256 13. He is cautious that the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong does not lower his high sentiments , or weaken his love of truth , 257 14. He does not suffer himself to ...
Página 37
... - ledge , which is the revelation of good and evil , set him free . Mr. Locke , in his introduction to the Essay on " The Human Understanding , " seems to consider this subject as involved in much difficulty ; he says 37.
... - ledge , which is the revelation of good and evil , set him free . Mr. Locke , in his introduction to the Essay on " The Human Understanding , " seems to consider this subject as involved in much difficulty ; he says 37.
Página 38
... consider the fondness and devotion wherewith they are embraced and the resolution and eagerness wherewith they are maintained , may , perhaps , have reason to suspect that either there is no such thing as truth at all , or that mankind ...
... consider the fondness and devotion wherewith they are embraced and the resolution and eagerness wherewith they are maintained , may , perhaps , have reason to suspect that either there is no such thing as truth at all , or that mankind ...
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Página 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Página 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Página 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Página 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Página 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Página 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Página 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Página 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Página 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...