The SavageEdward J. Coale, 1813 - 312 páginas |
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... knowledge there is much grief . " Should we not rather endeavor to multiply these happy delusions than to clear them away ? If light discover nothing but " sights of wo , " had we not better remain in darkness ? My sick brother is ...
... knowledge there is much grief . " Should we not rather endeavor to multiply these happy delusions than to clear them away ? If light discover nothing but " sights of wo , " had we not better remain in darkness ? My sick brother is ...
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... knowledge of the intellectual powers of the people that I describe . Do not naturalists rank the productions of nature agreeably to their locomotive powers ? The animal is more excellent than the vegetable ; why ? Because it is capable ...
... knowledge of the intellectual powers of the people that I describe . Do not naturalists rank the productions of nature agreeably to their locomotive powers ? The animal is more excellent than the vegetable ; why ? Because it is capable ...
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... knowledge was the parent of despair . Sometimes he employed himself in gather- ing together the glittering stones that may be found on the summit of the mountain : but the exertion , necessa- ry in this contemptible pursuit , was ...
... knowledge was the parent of despair . Sometimes he employed himself in gather- ing together the glittering stones that may be found on the summit of the mountain : but the exertion , necessa- ry in this contemptible pursuit , was ...
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... knowledge of the world . They soon dis- cover that there is but one thing needful . If they can ac- quire that , they will have every thing at command ; but if that be unattained , they will have nothing . Where are now the gay dreams ...
... knowledge of the world . They soon dis- cover that there is but one thing needful . If they can ac- quire that , they will have every thing at command ; but if that be unattained , they will have nothing . Where are now the gay dreams ...
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... knowledge ? Have men learned to con- quer disease , or retard the approaches of death ? Does their refinement give firmness and health to old age , or lengthen out the period of youth ? Are the mass of man- kind more benevolent , more ...
... knowledge ? Have men learned to con- quer disease , or retard the approaches of death ? Does their refinement give firmness and health to old age , or lengthen out the period of youth ? Are the mass of man- kind more benevolent , more ...
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Página 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i
Página 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Página 95 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 156 - My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
Página 95 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 93 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.