Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen 2,Número 72Harper, 1844 |
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... opinions , which can have no authority in them- selves , and which ought to have no influence but in proportion as they may be just and rational . They are now submitted to the public eye simply as the personal thoughts and feelings of ...
... opinions , which can have no authority in them- selves , and which ought to have no influence but in proportion as they may be just and rational . They are now submitted to the public eye simply as the personal thoughts and feelings of ...
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... opinion must therefore be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental inquiry more than on the present ; for the greatness of the theme will of itself Freclude the adequate competency in any one to treat fully or fitly of ...
... opinion must therefore be anticipated and submitted to , and on no subject of mental inquiry more than on the present ; for the greatness of the theme will of itself Freclude the adequate competency in any one to treat fully or fitly of ...
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... opinions of the ancient philosophers were more often chimeras , that would now disgrace any that were still in their nurseries , than the probable conjectures of reasoning men . * But their errors and follies have not de- terred later ...
... opinions of the ancient philosophers were more often chimeras , that would now disgrace any that were still in their nurseries , than the probable conjectures of reasoning men . * But their errors and follies have not de- terred later ...
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... opinions which we had not been conscious of , and we break up our attachment to many notions of which we once had no doubt . Hence more knowledge in any one branch of knowa- ble subjects , leads us to seek , and seeking , to acquire ...
... opinions which we had not been conscious of , and we break up our attachment to many notions of which we once had no doubt . Hence more knowledge in any one branch of knowa- ble subjects , leads us to seek , and seeking , to acquire ...
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... opinions would have been irreconcileable with them . For it is not because an opinion is true , that others will therefore adopt it . It must at the same time be congruous with our other impressions , and admit of being dovetailed into ...
... opinions would have been irreconcileable with them . For it is not because an opinion is true , that others will therefore adopt it . It must at the same time be congruous with our other impressions , and admit of being dovetailed into ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Página 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Página 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...