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... rest lazy and temperate , with three urns for their furniture , two an- chovies in a jar of oil for their food , waited on by slaves , so as to give them leisure to cultivate their understanding and exercise their limbs , with no desire ...
... rest lazy and temperate , with three urns for their furniture , two an- chovies in a jar of oil for their food , waited on by slaves , so as to give them leisure to cultivate their understanding and exercise their limbs , with no desire ...
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... rest , and almost impossible to lift , since every moment of an almost infinite past has contributed to increase it , and because , in order to raise the scale , one must place in the opposite scale a still greater number of actions and ...
... rest , and almost impossible to lift , since every moment of an almost infinite past has contributed to increase it , and because , in order to raise the scale , one must place in the opposite scale a still greater number of actions and ...
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... rest , and a clever naturalist can by a process of reasoning reconstruct out of a few fragments almost the whole body ; even so in a civilisation , religion , philosophy , the organisation of the family , literature , the arts , make up ...
... rest , and a clever naturalist can by a process of reasoning reconstruct out of a few fragments almost the whole body ; even so in a civilisation , religion , philosophy , the organisation of the family , literature , the arts , make up ...
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... rest . Each of these has for its direct cause a moral disposition , or a combination of moral dispositions : the cause given , they appear ; the cause withdrawn , they vanish : the weakness or intensity of the cause measures their ...
... rest . Each of these has for its direct cause a moral disposition , or a combination of moral dispositions : the cause given , they appear ; the cause withdrawn , they vanish : the weakness or intensity of the cause measures their ...
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... rest . 6 2 Behold them now in England , more settled and wealthier : do you look to find them much changed ? Changed it may be , but for the worse , like the Franks , like all barbarians who pass from action to en- joyment . They are ...
... rest . 6 2 Behold them now in England , more settled and wealthier : do you look to find them much changed ? Changed it may be , but for the worse , like the Franks , like all barbarians who pass from action to en- joyment . They are ...
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action appears arms beauty become better blood body bring called carried cause century character comes common complete continually court death dream England English express eyes face fall father feel follow force French genius give hand head hear heart heaven human Ibid ideas images imagination Italy kind king lady leaves light literature living look Lord manners mind moral nature never night noble once passed passion play pleasure poem poet poetry present produce race reason religion rest Saxon says sense sentiment Shakspeare side sing soul speak spirit strong style sweet taste tell thee things thou thought true turn verse voice whole wife wishes woman writing young
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Página 450 - And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Página 302 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still ; The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Página 268 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 370 - Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent ; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 337 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew ! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God ! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! ah fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 429 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 158 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 436 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast...
Página 451 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...