Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - 356 páginas |
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... young lady partook of some salad with which an onion had been mixed , and , for the purpose of destroying the unpleasant odour , she purchased a quantity of camphor , of which she ate ; she was soon seized with violent symptoms of ...
... young lady partook of some salad with which an onion had been mixed , and , for the purpose of destroying the unpleasant odour , she purchased a quantity of camphor , of which she ate ; she was soon seized with violent symptoms of ...
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... young men and young women for crimes without violence no longer disgrace this noble country : there has not been one execution in London during the present year . This improvement is not confined to criminal but extends to civil law ...
... young men and young women for crimes without violence no longer disgrace this noble country : there has not been one execution in London during the present year . This improvement is not confined to criminal but extends to civil law ...
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... young inno- vator , who wished to overturn the old systems only to exalt his own name . Dillerius spoke of " who confounds all him as the young man botany , " treating him with reserve and haughti- * Hume , v . 351 . ness , until his ...
... young inno- vator , who wished to overturn the old systems only to exalt his own name . Dillerius spoke of " who confounds all him as the young man botany , " treating him with reserve and haughti- * Hume , v . 351 . ness , until his ...
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... young poet , " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven . We know her woof and texture : she is given In the dull catalogue of common things ; Philosophy would clip an ...
... young poet , " Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven . We know her woof and texture : she is given In the dull catalogue of common things ; Philosophy would clip an ...
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... young men , whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy . The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination ' Twixt right and wrong ; " for pleasure and revenge ...
... young men , whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy . The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination ' Twixt right and wrong ; " for pleasure and revenge ...
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advocate answered appears beautiful Ben Jonson body cause Chancellor child Christian church common conscious court death demagogue discover distress divine doth duty earth effect endeavours England erroneous error excited exertions favour fear feeling hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hobbes's honour hope human ignorance improvement instantly intelligence John Milton judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice king knowledge laugh laughter lawyer learned liberty live Lord Bacon love of excellence majesty master maxim ment mind mode Muggletonian nature ness never noble Novum Organum opinion passed passions Patriot philosophy Phocion pleasure prejudice principle profession punishment reason reform religion remembers respect Sarah Price says sequence of events serang Sir Edward Coke Sir Matthew Hale Sir Samuel Romilly soul speaking spirit sudden superiority sympathy Tenterden things Thomas Clarkson thought tion Tobit true truth unto wisdom
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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...