The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volum 12Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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Pàgina
... PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE . ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS , A GENERAL ATLAS , AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS . Sic oportet ad librum , presertim miscellanei generis , legendum accedere lectorem , ut solet ad convivium conviva civilis ...
... PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE . ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS , A GENERAL ATLAS , AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS . Sic oportet ad librum , presertim miscellanei generis , legendum accedere lectorem , ut solet ad convivium conviva civilis ...
Pàgina 1
... present situation , enforced by no prospects and interests of the present state . sidered under two aspects ; the influence of the The subject , viewed in this light , may be con- opposite systems on the principles of morals , and on ...
... present situation , enforced by no prospects and interests of the present state . sidered under two aspects ; the influence of the The subject , viewed in this light , may be con- opposite systems on the principles of morals , and on ...
Pàgina 3
... present life , must tend , in interest : their conduct takes its colour more a proportionable degree , to diminish the gran- from their acquired taste , inclinations , and deur , and narrow the sphere of human agency . habits , than ...
... present life , must tend , in interest : their conduct takes its colour more a proportionable degree , to diminish the gran- from their acquired taste , inclinations , and deur , and narrow the sphere of human agency . habits , than ...
Pàgina 6
... present with us , who had given existence , with numberless other blessings , and on whom we depended each instant , as well for every present enjoyment as for every future good : suppose a cat we had incurred the just displea- sue of ...
... present with us , who had given existence , with numberless other blessings , and on whom we depended each instant , as well for every present enjoyment as for every future good : suppose a cat we had incurred the just displea- sue of ...
Pàgina 7
... present happiness of man ; but the happiness of time bears none at all to that of eternity . The scep- tical system , therefore , sinks the importance of human existence to an inconceivable degree . From these principles result the ...
... present happiness of man ; but the happiness of time bears none at all to that of eternity . The scep- tical system , therefore , sinks the importance of human existence to an inconceivable degree . From these principles result the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 93 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Pàgina 275 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pàgina 11 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world...
Pàgina 72 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Pàgina 70 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pàgina 38 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Pàgina 397 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Pàgina 285 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Pàgina 62 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Pàgina 10 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...