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... animal of life , to thrust , for " Gravity and warmth , " characterised his sential truths of religion are most fitting . instance , the fatal steel into the vitals of manner ; and though his style was more There are also books of ...
... animal of life , to thrust , for " Gravity and warmth , " characterised his sential truths of religion are most fitting . instance , the fatal steel into the vitals of manner ; and though his style was more There are also books of ...
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... animal by a spring , that it may the more freely play and tremble at the slightest motion . The extravagance of the Myantses is far more ridi- culous than the above ; they carry on their heads a slight board , rather longer than a foot ...
... animal by a spring , that it may the more freely play and tremble at the slightest motion . The extravagance of the Myantses is far more ridi- culous than the above ; they carry on their heads a slight board , rather longer than a foot ...
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... animals . But what can authorise the wanton torture of a domestic and patient animal ? " Kites , hawks , and wolves de- serve their fate , " as the poet justly observes , nor is their destruction an act of inhumanity , being distinct ...
... animals . But what can authorise the wanton torture of a domestic and patient animal ? " Kites , hawks , and wolves de- serve their fate , " as the poet justly observes , nor is their destruction an act of inhumanity , being distinct ...
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... animals envested with capacities to act ad libitum , as is aforesaid , & c . 4. It is a maxim in philosophy , Nil dat quod non habet : and hence it would necessarily follow , that the planets are themselves sick or infected with the pox ...
... animals envested with capacities to act ad libitum , as is aforesaid , & c . 4. It is a maxim in philosophy , Nil dat quod non habet : and hence it would necessarily follow , that the planets are themselves sick or infected with the pox ...
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... animals will not injure it . Required the reason . What is the reason that sound is more distinct immediately after a shower of rain than before ? XII . When , and by whom , was the Bissextile or Leap Suppose a company of five persons ...
... animals will not injure it . Required the reason . What is the reason that sound is more distinct immediately after a shower of rain than before ? XII . When , and by whom , was the Bissextile or Leap Suppose a company of five persons ...
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Página 158 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 5 - No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock ; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Página 131 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Página 107 - Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured ; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Página 102 - THERE are three modes of bearing the ills of life ; by indifference, which is the most common ; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious ; and by religion, which is the most effectual. It has been acutely said, that " philosophy readily triumphs over past or future evils, but that present evils triumph over philosophy.
Página 219 - His forehead was broad and high, light as if built of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them like a sea with darkened lustre. "A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Velasquez.
Página 96 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Página 73 - And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Página 219 - ... surveyed and projected him (with sufficient capacity and huge aspiration) into the world unknown of thought and imagination, with nothing to support or guide his veering purpose, as if Columbus had launched his adventurous course for the New World in a scallop, without oars or compass. So at least I comment on it after the event. Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet,
Página 5 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float; Quoth he, " My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.