Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Band 14,Teil 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... person who is its object , it cannot in fuch inftances be the refult of deliberation , but merely the exertion of an original inftinct . The fame kind of reafoning is employed to prove that gratitude is the exercise of an innate prin ...
... person who is its object , it cannot in fuch inftances be the refult of deliberation , but merely the exertion of an original inftinct . The fame kind of reafoning is employed to prove that gratitude is the exercise of an innate prin ...
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... person knows not only that they have no original or inftinctive dread of fire , which is as dangerous to them as any precipice ; but that it is extremely diffi- cult to keep them from that deftructive element till they are either ...
... person knows not only that they have no original or inftinctive dread of fire , which is as dangerous to them as any precipice ; but that it is extremely diffi- cult to keep them from that deftructive element till they are either ...
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... persons who are worthy of our confidence . It is furprifing how quickly , and for the moft part how correctly , we judge of character from external appearance . 3. After focial intercourfe is commenced , thefe ex- ternal figna , which ...
... persons who are worthy of our confidence . It is furprifing how quickly , and for the moft part how correctly , we judge of character from external appearance . 3. After focial intercourfe is commenced , thefe ex- ternal figna , which ...
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... person that fuffers adverfity without dejection , as for demolished temples , the very ruins whereof are reverenced and adored . A virtuous and well - difpofed perfon , is like to good metal ; the more he is fired , the more he is ...
... person that fuffers adverfity without dejection , as for demolished temples , the very ruins whereof are reverenced and adored . A virtuous and well - difpofed perfon , is like to good metal ; the more he is fired , the more he is ...
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... person appeared , dead or living , in a mirror suspended fo as to touch the furface of the wa- ter . In the citadel of Patræ was a temple of Diana Laphria , with her ftatue in the habit of a huntress of ivory and gold , given by ...
... person appeared , dead or living , in a mirror suspended fo as to touch the furface of the wa- ter . In the citadel of Patræ was a temple of Diana Laphria , with her ftatue in the habit of a huntress of ivory and gold , given by ...
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Seite 10 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Seite 9 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Seite 12 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Seite 17 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Seite 26 - ... happy at his going among them, immediately gathered round him, and made a rude kind of noise, which I believe was their method of singing, as their countenances bespoke it a species of jollity.
Seite 14 - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau! La moitié de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau Et m'oblige à venger, après ce coup funeste, Celle que je n'ai plus sur celle qui me reste.
Seite 52 - ... bending his notions and manners to theirs, as far as his duty to God would permit ; a conduct compatible neither with the...
Seite 134 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Seite 234 - ... has a fresh, healthy look. He wears his beard ; his face is not at all ugly or disagreeable, and he has a look that may be called sensible or sagacious for a savage.
Seite 9 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he.