A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volumen5T. Becket, 1794 |
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... Scandinavians , in particular , wo- men were held in high consideration . They believed , that there was something sacred in their character , and that they had a foresight of futurity for this reason , their councils were always ...
... Scandinavians , in particular , wo- men were held in high consideration . They believed , that there was something sacred in their character , and that they had a foresight of futurity for this reason , their councils were always ...
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... Scandinavians , from receiving letters from the Northern Scythians . Espe- cially , as we are told , the Goths ... Scandinavia . The Icelandic chro nicles paint him as the most persuasive of men . They tell us , nothing could resist the ...
... Scandinavians , from receiving letters from the Northern Scythians . Espe- cially , as we are told , the Goths ... Scandinavia . The Icelandic chro nicles paint him as the most persuasive of men . They tell us , nothing could resist the ...
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... Scandinavians . He was also the inventor of the Runic characters , which so long prevailed among that people . The same chronicles add , he knew how to sing airs so tender and melo- dious , that the very plains and mountains would open ...
... Scandinavians . He was also the inventor of the Runic characters , which so long prevailed among that people . The same chronicles add , he knew how to sing airs so tender and melo- dious , that the very plains and mountains would open ...
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... Scandinavians employed nearly the same characters for all these different purposes ; but they varied the order and combination of the letters : they wrote them either from right to left , or from top to bottom , or in the form of a ...
... Scandinavians employed nearly the same characters for all these different purposes ; but they varied the order and combination of the letters : they wrote them either from right to left , or from top to bottom , or in the form of a ...
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... Scandinavians . In the future revolutions of ages , I can readily an- ticipate culture in the most disheartening soil ; in the days that are past , I can retrospectively suppose L'Abbe Bletterie . suppose ability to have flourished ...
... Scandinavians . In the future revolutions of ages , I can readily an- ticipate culture in the most disheartening soil ; in the days that are past , I can retrospectively suppose L'Abbe Bletterie . suppose ability to have flourished ...
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Página 196 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Página 196 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Página 22 - ... people, if we compared the unrelenting revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs, who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate...
Página 236 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Página 317 - A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same faculties, but with a longer measure of existence, would cast down a smile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours...
Página 308 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln : and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Página 190 - impatient' to be on the wing, a weapon 'thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it.
Página 148 - The ancient Icelandic mythology calls him " the author of every thing that existeth; the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful Being, the searcher into concealed things, the Being that never changeth.
Página 130 - Ullin, Fingal's bard, was there ; the sweet voice of the hill of Cona. He praised the daughter of snow, and Morven's" high-descended chief. The daughter of snow overheard, and left the hall of her secret sigh. She came in all her beauty, like the moon from the cloud of the east. Loveliness was around her as light. Her steps were like the music of songs.
Página 159 - In the day-spring of the ages," says the prophetess, " there was neither sea, nor shore, nor refreshing breezes. There was neither earth below, nor heaven above, to be distinguished. The whole was only one vast abyss, without herb, and without seeds. The sun had then no palace : the stars knew not their dwellingplaces, the moon was ignorant of her power.