Sacred History of the World Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen2Longman, 1834 |
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... mankind ; and to exhibit the plans and principles and purposes , which seem to have been pursued with respect to them , and to the progression of human nature in their succes- sive generations , and therefore in the conduct and ( RECAP ) ...
... mankind ; and to exhibit the plans and principles and purposes , which seem to have been pursued with respect to them , and to the progression of human nature in their succes- sive generations , and therefore in the conduct and ( RECAP ) ...
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... mankind ; in the rise and prevalence of the varied ranks and conditions of life ; in the natural and moral evils which we occasionally feel ; in the provisions which have been made for human happi- ness and individual comfort ; in the ...
... mankind ; in the rise and prevalence of the varied ranks and conditions of life ; in the natural and moral evils which we occasionally feel ; in the provisions which have been made for human happi- ness and individual comfort ; in the ...
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... MANKIND into distinct Nations and Communities - Adaptation of the Earth to this appointed Condition in its various Regions and Countries - The Surface gradually fitted to this local Geography page 426 LETTER XXIII . The NATURAL SCENERY ...
... MANKIND into distinct Nations and Communities - Adaptation of the Earth to this appointed Condition in its various Regions and Countries - The Surface gradually fitted to this local Geography page 426 LETTER XXIII . The NATURAL SCENERY ...
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... mankind ought to supersede and silence every private purpose . Care indeed should be taken to avoid producing evil when we desire to do good ; or our philanthropy will be a mischief , instead of a benefit . Too many instances of this ...
... mankind ought to supersede and silence every private purpose . Care indeed should be taken to avoid producing evil when we desire to do good ; or our philanthropy will be a mischief , instead of a benefit . Too many instances of this ...
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... mankind , and not in the way many suppose , who imagine them to know some things only , and not others ; for Socrates believed that they are conscious of all things ; those said and done , and those also which are wished in silence ...
... mankind , and not in the way many suppose , who imagine them to know some things only , and not others ; for Socrates believed that they are conscious of all things ; those said and done , and those also which are wished in silence ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam and Eve agencies altho ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character Cicero civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity Deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian Divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact feelings females globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happiness Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish kind knowlege land laws LETTER living males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral Mount Seir mountains nations never ocean operation ourselves peculiar perceive perfect Phenicians Plato pleasure Pliny Plut Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks Sacred History says sensations soil soul spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought thro tion tribes truth vegetation XXVII
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Página 281 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Página 223 - 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 284 - 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...
Página 518 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Página 224 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 240 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG To the Cuckoo O BLITHE new-comer!
Página 210 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : Then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, And be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Página 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.