Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, with a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. StarkweatherColonial Press, 1900 - 456 Seiten |
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... fact well known in the history of science and philosophy , that men , gifted by nature with singular intelligence , have broached the grossest errors , and even sought to undermine the grand primitive truths on which human virtue ...
... fact well known in the history of science and philosophy , that men , gifted by nature with singular intelligence , have broached the grossest errors , and even sought to undermine the grand primitive truths on which human virtue ...
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... facts , and the other using these facts as founda- tions of higher , wider truths . The latter are philosophers . For example , men had for ages seen pieces of wood , stones , metals falling to the ground . Newton seized on these ...
... facts , and the other using these facts as founda- tions of higher , wider truths . The latter are philosophers . For example , men had for ages seen pieces of wood , stones , metals falling to the ground . Newton seized on these ...
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... fact , that those men among us who are noted for their opulence exert hardly any political power on the community . That the rich do their whole duty ; that they adopt , as they should , the great object of the social state , which is ...
... fact , that those men among us who are noted for their opulence exert hardly any political power on the community . That the rich do their whole duty ; that they adopt , as they should , the great object of the social state , which is ...
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... facts ; and that it is a plain fact , that the order and prosperity of society , which God must be supposed to intend , require from the multitude the action of their hands , and not the improvement of their minds . I reply that a ...
... facts ; and that it is a plain fact , that the order and prosperity of society , which God must be supposed to intend , require from the multitude the action of their hands , and not the improvement of their minds . I reply that a ...
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... fact is , that among our most improved people a considerable part consists of persons who pass the greatest portion of every day at the desk , in the counting - room , or in some other sphere , chained to tasks which have very little ...
... fact is , that among our most improved people a considerable part consists of persons who pass the greatest portion of every day at the desk , in the counting - room , or in some other sphere , chained to tasks which have very little ...
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Seite 9 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore, ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Seite 37 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Seite 224 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Seite 170 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Seite 224 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Seite 8 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 225 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Seite 264 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Seite 112 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Seite 248 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.