On genius, in which it is attempted to be proved that there is no mental distinction among mankindHamilton and Adams, 1830 - 86 頁 |
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... principles . Like the works of nature , time and art can add nothing to it but what is superfluous , nor retrench any thing but what is necessary . Critics after Critics have exhausted themselves in praises of its beauties ; whilst ...
... principles . Like the works of nature , time and art can add nothing to it but what is superfluous , nor retrench any thing but what is necessary . Critics after Critics have exhausted themselves in praises of its beauties ; whilst ...
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... a result which owed every thing to accident and circumstance . Harrison , for many years before the discovery of his pendulum , knew every principle upon which it acts , as well as he did afterwards ; or , if he did not , 12.
... a result which owed every thing to accident and circumstance . Harrison , for many years before the discovery of his pendulum , knew every principle upon which it acts , as well as he did afterwards ; or , if he did not , 12.
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... principles than the hypothesis of Genius . The first works of all these extraordinary characters , were the pure offerings , the primitia which the mind made to sense . It was in pastoral descrip- tion , the scenery of nature , or every ...
... principles than the hypothesis of Genius . The first works of all these extraordinary characters , were the pure offerings , the primitia which the mind made to sense . It was in pastoral descrip- tion , the scenery of nature , or every ...
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... principles , we may , and we ought to dismiss the unsupported hypothesis of Genius . Genius , it is true , cuts the gordian knot at once , but then it is an instrument invisible , and incom- prehensible . The evidence of its existence I ...
... principles , we may , and we ought to dismiss the unsupported hypothesis of Genius . Genius , it is true , cuts the gordian knot at once , but then it is an instrument invisible , and incom- prehensible . The evidence of its existence I ...
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... principle of its action . Were he to tell us , that it consists of a long hollow cylinder , one end of which is immersed in water , and near the other end is placed a valve opening upwards ; that above this valve , is a moveable air ...
... principle of its action . Were he to tell us , that it consists of a long hollow cylinder , one end of which is immersed in water , and near the other end is placed a valve opening upwards ; that above this valve , is a moveable air ...
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第 48 頁 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
第 70 頁 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
第 9 頁 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
第 8 頁 - Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration of all the world upon them, and stand up as the prodigies of mankind, who, by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times, and the wonder of posterity.
第 33 頁 - A thinking being, — that is, a being doubting, knowing, affirming, denying, consenting, refusing, susceptible of pleasure and of pain.* Of all these things I might have had complete experience, without any previous acquaintance with the qualities and laws of matter ; and therefore it is impossible that the study of matter can avail me aught in the study of myself.
第 47 頁 - Emerged, he sat, and mourn'd his Argives slain. At Jove incensed, with grief and fury stung, Prone down the rocky steep he rush'd along ; Fierce as he pass'd, the lofty mountains nod, The forest shakes ; earth trembled as he trod, 30 And felt the footsteps of the immortal god.
第 10 頁 - Atqui sic a summis hominibus eruditissimisque accepimus, ceterarum rerum studia et doctrina et praeceptis et arte constare, poe'tam natura ipsa valere et mentis viribus excitari et quasi divino quodam spiritu inflari.
第 31 頁 - The Sphinx, the famous monster born of Chimaera, and having the head of a woman, the wings of a bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion ; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ? " so puzzled the Thebans, that King Creon offered his crown and his daughter Jocasta to any one who should solve it, and so free the land of the uncomfortable...