Lives of the Ancient PhilosophersHarper, 1842 - 299 páginas |
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Página 17 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 208 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Página 283 - I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy: namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter.
Página 102 - Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription. TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Página 208 - Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants ; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. And thus they spend The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp In playing tricks with nature, giving laws To distant worlds, and trifling in their own.
Página 21 - ... followers of them who, through faith and patience, are now inheriting the promises.
Página 227 - Craneum, where he was cementing his tub. " I am," said he to him, " the great king Alexander." "And I," replied the philosopher, "am the dog Diogenes.
Página 227 - Retire, then, a little to one side," replied Diogenes; "you are depriving me of the sun." It is no wonder that Alexander stood astonished at seeing a man so completely above every human concern. "Which of the two is...
Página 41 - Egypt has been effected by natural means, perfectly consonant with the ordinary rules of Providence, and the laws given for the government of the rest of the universe.
Página 213 - Christ that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us and love our enemies.