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... once the priests and the philosophers of the country ; to the select number , who , like the initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries , have the concealed physical and moral truths explained ; while these symbols are to the Eastern ...
... once the priests and the philosophers of the country ; to the select number , who , like the initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries , have the concealed physical and moral truths explained ; while these symbols are to the Eastern ...
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... once shews whence it was de- rived . Salt is still the symbol employed in the East to denote the confirmation of any engagement , and it remains the pledge of inviolable friendship . Treachery would be stigmatized by this figure ; and ...
... once shews whence it was de- rived . Salt is still the symbol employed in the East to denote the confirmation of any engagement , and it remains the pledge of inviolable friendship . Treachery would be stigmatized by this figure ; and ...
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... once more appealing to nature and to truth , emancipated philo- sophy from the trammels of hypothesis , and placed her upon the immoveable basis of experiment . Such were the principal Grecian philosophers , and such their modes of ...
... once more appealing to nature and to truth , emancipated philo- sophy from the trammels of hypothesis , and placed her upon the immoveable basis of experiment . Such were the principal Grecian philosophers , and such their modes of ...
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... once commenced , we cannot predict when or where it will cease : thus , we write dulness , smalness , & c . , with one , except the four following words , which have es- caped this strange encroachment , ―illness , fullness , shrillness ...
... once commenced , we cannot predict when or where it will cease : thus , we write dulness , smalness , & c . , with one , except the four following words , which have es- caped this strange encroachment , ―illness , fullness , shrillness ...
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... once they lived their country's hope and pride- Wafted by winds that howl , and waves that roar , Again the requiem floats along the tide . And must our sons , the noblest and the blest , Yield up their spirits under alien skies ? Must ...
... once they lived their country's hope and pride- Wafted by winds that howl , and waves that roar , Again the requiem floats along the tide . And must our sons , the noblest and the blest , Yield up their spirits under alien skies ? Must ...
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acquired admiration appear Aristotle beauty belief called Camden cause character Chiroplast Chivalry circumstances considered constitution death degree delight derived domestic duties Edward Capell effects England Epicurus evil excite exertion existence fact faculties fancy feeling formed genius Greece happiness hath heart honour hope human ideas imagination important individual influence instance institution intel intellectual interest Italian language Kemble knight knowledge labour Lanark language laws letters Logier Lord Lord Byron mankind means ment mind moral names nature never novels and romances o'er object observed origin orthography passion persons Philomathic philosophers Phrenology piastres Plato pleasure poet possess present principles produce proof pupils Pythagoras racter regard remark rendered respect Rome scarcely seem'd sense smile society Socrates soul sound Spain spirit sublime taste thee Theodric thing thou thought tion truth Twas vex'd virtue wealth words writings
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 13 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Seite 355 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Seite 163 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Seite 414 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Seite 41 - But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — • the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but, if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. — Fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, Imagination to incite and to support the eternal.
Seite 431 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Seite 28 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 287 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Seite 49 - But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things, it were happy for the commonwealth...
Seite 431 - The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame ; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...