The Philomathic journal, Volum 2 |
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Pàgina 11
... Rome ; this luxuriant moral vegetation springing originally in a warmer clime , and from a richer soil , than Europe could boast . The conquerors who have succes- sively plundered the East , have brought home more valuable spoils than ...
... Rome ; this luxuriant moral vegetation springing originally in a warmer clime , and from a richer soil , than Europe could boast . The conquerors who have succes- sively plundered the East , have brought home more valuable spoils than ...
Pàgina 12
... Rome ? ) con- fessed these Grecian sages to be their masters , and manifested towards them all the warm affections of disciples . After the fall of the Roman empire , an awful blank occurs in the his- tory of morals ; and it was not ...
... Rome ? ) con- fessed these Grecian sages to be their masters , and manifested towards them all the warm affections of disciples . After the fall of the Roman empire , an awful blank occurs in the his- tory of morals ; and it was not ...
Pàgina 150
... Rome and the patriarch of Constantinople . There was nothing in it peculiar to chivalry , and , therefore , did not form a fair ground of ob- jection to that institution . As to the cruelty practised by the Spaniards on their landing in ...
... Rome and the patriarch of Constantinople . There was nothing in it peculiar to chivalry , and , therefore , did not form a fair ground of ob- jection to that institution . As to the cruelty practised by the Spaniards on their landing in ...
Pàgina 152
... Rome was governed by consuls . She had , indeed , after this period , when her commonwealth was exchanged for a mo- narchy , and in her subsequent dismemberment , magistrates who bore this title ; but they were merely the shadows , and ...
... Rome was governed by consuls . She had , indeed , after this period , when her commonwealth was exchanged for a mo- narchy , and in her subsequent dismemberment , magistrates who bore this title ; but they were merely the shadows , and ...
Pàgina 153
... Rome produced affectionate parents and dutiful children merely , or because the worship of the gods was scrupulously performed , that the perusal and consideration of her history fills us with admira- tion and enthusiasm . It was the ...
... Rome produced affectionate parents and dutiful children merely , or because the worship of the gods was scrupulously performed , that the perusal and consideration of her history fills us with admira- tion and enthusiasm . It was the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 13 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Pàgina 355 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 163 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Pàgina 414 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Pàgina 41 - But the Imagination is conscious of an indestructible dominion ; — • the Soul may fall away from it, not being able to sustain its grandeur ; but, if once felt and acknowledged, by no act of any other faculty of the mind can it be relaxed, impaired, or diminished. — Fancy is given to quicken and to beguile the temporal part of our nature, Imagination to incite and to support the eternal.
Pàgina 431 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Pàgina 28 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Pàgina 287 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Pàgina 49 - But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things, it were happy for the commonwealth...
Pàgina 431 - The pupils at his command took each of them hold of an iron handle, whereof there were forty fixed round the edges of the frame ; and giving them a sudden turn, the whole disposition of the words was entirely changed. He then commanded...