Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 頁 |
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... individuals , and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence . Beside which it incalculably increases the perfection of one . The man who does not speak , is an unfledged thinker ; and the man that does not write , is but half ...
... individuals , and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence . Beside which it incalculably increases the perfection of one . The man who does not speak , is an unfledged thinker ; and the man that does not write , is but half ...
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... individuals thus assembled . Were they taken indiscriminately , as boys are when consigned to the care of a schoolmaster , the proportion of the brilliant would not be a whit greater than in the latter case . A main criterion of the ...
... individuals thus assembled . Were they taken indiscriminately , as boys are when consigned to the care of a schoolmaster , the proportion of the brilliant would not be a whit greater than in the latter case . A main criterion of the ...
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... individual , whom we once knew a sheepish and irresolute schoolboy , that hung his head , that replied with inarticulated monotony , and stammered out his meaning , metamorphosed into a thoroughly manly character , who may take his ...
... individual , whom we once knew a sheepish and irresolute schoolboy , that hung his head , that replied with inarticulated monotony , and stammered out his meaning , metamorphosed into a thoroughly manly character , who may take his ...
第 23 頁
... individual is too often decided for ever . How are the majority of men trampled in the mire , made " hewers of wood , and drawers of water , " long , very long , before there was an opportunity of ascertain- ing what it was of which ...
... individual is too often decided for ever . How are the majority of men trampled in the mire , made " hewers of wood , and drawers of water , " long , very long , before there was an opportunity of ascertain- ing what it was of which ...
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... individual is determined . To confine ourselves to man . All men , the monster and the lusus naturæ ex- cepted , have a certain form , a certain complement of limbs , a certain internal structure , and organs of sense - may we not add ...
... individual is determined . To confine ourselves to man . All men , the monster and the lusus naturæ ex- cepted , have a certain form , a certain complement of limbs , a certain internal structure , and organs of sense - may we not add ...
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第 234 頁 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
第 86 頁 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
第 135 頁 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
第 310 頁 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
第 312 頁 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
第 87 頁 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
第 251 頁 - And suppose they do, do they likewise abstain from unprofitable conversation ? Yet all this is unquestionably sinful, and "grieves the Holy Spirit of God :" yea, and " for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account in the day of judgment.
第 312 頁 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
第 140 頁 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
第 21 頁 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.