Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 頁 |
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第 iii 頁
... least so far as I am aware , never been given to the public through the me- dium of the press . During a part of this period I had remained to a considerable degree unoccupied in my character of an author , and had delivered little to ...
... least so far as I am aware , never been given to the public through the me- dium of the press . During a part of this period I had remained to a considerable degree unoccupied in my character of an author , and had delivered little to ...
第 4 頁
... least the endowment , which makes man social , by which principally we impart our sentiments to each other , and which changes us from solitary individuals , and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence . Beside which it ...
... least the endowment , which makes man social , by which principally we impart our sentiments to each other , and which changes us from solitary individuals , and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence . Beside which it ...
第 8 頁
... least we must be very different creatures from what we are at pre- sent , when that shall take place . For a man to think , agreeably and with serenity , he must be in some degree of health . The corpus sanum is no less indispensible ...
... least we must be very different creatures from what we are at pre- sent , when that shall take place . For a man to think , agreeably and with serenity , he must be in some degree of health . The corpus sanum is no less indispensible ...
第 23 頁
... least fit for : and , while perhaps a suf- ficient quantity of talent is extant in each successive generation , yet , for want of each man's being duly estimated , and assigned his appropriate duty , the very reverse may appear to be ...
... least fit for : and , while perhaps a suf- ficient quantity of talent is extant in each successive generation , yet , for want of each man's being duly estimated , and assigned his appropriate duty , the very reverse may appear to be ...
第 57 頁
... least of all qualified by nature to acquire similar applause . We are not contented to proceed in the path of obscure useful- ness and worth . We are eager to be admired , and thus often engage in pursuits for which perhaps we are of ...
... least of all qualified by nature to acquire similar applause . We are not contented to proceed in the path of obscure useful- ness and worth . We are eager to be admired , and thus often engage in pursuits for which perhaps we are of ...
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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.