Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 頁 |
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... greater indulgence , inasmuch as the human mind is prone in many cases to give a more welcome reception to seeming truths , that present us at the first blush the appearance of falshood . It must however be recollected that the human ...
... greater indulgence , inasmuch as the human mind is prone in many cases to give a more welcome reception to seeming truths , that present us at the first blush the appearance of falshood . It must however be recollected that the human ...
第 111 頁
... on fire ; but that , with ordi- nary men , the fiercest excesses of passion extend to no greater distance than can be reached by the sound of their voice . ESSAY VI . OF HUMAN INNOCENCE . ONE of the v . ] 111 OF THE REBELLIOUSNESS OF MAN .
... on fire ; but that , with ordi- nary men , the fiercest excesses of passion extend to no greater distance than can be reached by the sound of their voice . ESSAY VI . OF HUMAN INNOCENCE . ONE of the v . ] 111 OF THE REBELLIOUSNESS OF MAN .
第 112 頁
... greater part carries on its own organization . Each man pursues his proper occu- pation , and there are few individuals that feel the propensity to interrupt the pursuits of their neigh- bours by personal violence . When we observe the ...
... greater part carries on its own organization . Each man pursues his proper occu- pation , and there are few individuals that feel the propensity to interrupt the pursuits of their neigh- bours by personal violence . When we observe the ...
第 117 頁
... greater degree glutted . The ambition of man is unbounded ; and he hesitates at no means in the course it prompts him to pursue . In short , man is to man ever the most fearful and dangerous foe and it is in this view of his nature that ...
... greater degree glutted . The ambition of man is unbounded ; and he hesitates at no means in the course it prompts him to pursue . In short , man is to man ever the most fearful and dangerous foe and it is in this view of his nature that ...
第 146 頁
... greater audience , and endeavouring either to amuse or instruct them . It is on the alert , while in silence and solitude I endeavour to follow a train of reasoning , to marshal and arrange a connected set of ideas , or in any other way ...
... greater audience , and endeavouring either to amuse or instruct them . It is on the alert , while in silence and solitude I endeavour to follow a train of reasoning , to marshal and arrange a connected set of ideas , or in any other way ...
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第 129 頁 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
第 187 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 328 頁 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
第 128 頁 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
第 192 頁 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
第 118 頁 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
第 213 頁 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
第 74 頁 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
第 100 頁 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
第 29 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.