An Essay on the Cultivation of the Intellect by the Study of Dead LanguagesJ. Bohn, 1830 - 371 páginas |
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... assertion , and with a careful selection of our topics with re- ference to the situation of the hearer . It is won- derful how much knowledge we lose by indolently or proudly declining to converse with every man on the subject with ...
... assertion , and with a careful selection of our topics with re- ference to the situation of the hearer . It is won- derful how much knowledge we lose by indolently or proudly declining to converse with every man on the subject with ...
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... assert the contrary ; because in no single in- stance have we found that our anticipation of a peculiar feeling from that fluid , red , fluctuating substance , which we call fire , has been ever disap- pointed . And as thus we ...
... assert the contrary ; because in no single in- stance have we found that our anticipation of a peculiar feeling from that fluid , red , fluctuating substance , which we call fire , has been ever disap- pointed . And as thus we ...
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... assert such an un- interrupted recurrence , except from the a priori argument of the benevolence of the Deity . And we can easily break the links apart , and conceive one consequent of an antecedent to be substituted for another ; the ...
... assert such an un- interrupted recurrence , except from the a priori argument of the benevolence of the Deity . And we can easily break the links apart , and conceive one consequent of an antecedent to be substituted for another ; the ...
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... all other created beings are formed like himself ; such a man will hesitate to assert that there may not be states of existence in which the same thing may be , and 16 ON THE CULTIVATION should be crooked, or that man should not be ...
... all other created beings are formed like himself ; such a man will hesitate to assert that there may not be states of existence in which the same thing may be , and 16 ON THE CULTIVATION should be crooked, or that man should not be ...
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... asserted that this milk is white , that the day is cold , that a friend is before me ; if all the ideas associated with these words are actually called up in my mind , and particularly that muscular sensation , from which we chiefly ...
... asserted that this milk is white , that the day is cold , that a friend is before me ; if all the ideas associated with these words are actually called up in my mind , and particularly that muscular sensation , from which we chiefly ...
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Página 180 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 87 - Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece, and made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth, and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up.
Página 32 - Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood ; And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature For ruin's wasteful entrance...
Página 87 - ... of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him ; whereupon he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up. And he gathered a mighty strong host, and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him. And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.
Página 58 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Página 7 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Página 87 - AND IT HAPPENED, AFTER THAT ALEXANDER SON OF PHILIP, THE Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece, and made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth, and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet...
Página 311 - live to him in all holy obedience, live to him as our Lord and King.' Not that I suppose there are peculiar precepts and a peculiar law of Jesus Christ, in the observance whereof we are justified, as the Socinians fancy ; for surely the gospel requires of us no more, ' but to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, and all our souls...
Página 309 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment," Mark xii, 30, the first and great branch of Christian righteousness.
Página 309 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great Commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shah love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the prophets.