Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes , set down rather significantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient . » The literary style of the essay varies ...
... cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes , set down rather significantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient . » The literary style of the essay varies ...
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... causes are beyond the reach of chemical analysis and that they are never to be reached by micro- scopic investigation , he insists in his analysis of the powers of the intellect . But he recognized this as a mere matter of definition ...
... causes are beyond the reach of chemical analysis and that they are never to be reached by micro- scopic investigation , he insists in his analysis of the powers of the intellect . But he recognized this as a mere matter of definition ...
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... cause and effect . This relation , however , according to the utmost extent of our knowledge of it in any individual instance , is founded entirely upon the fact of certain events uniformly following one another . But when we have found ...
... cause and effect . This relation , however , according to the utmost extent of our knowledge of it in any individual instance , is founded entirely upon the fact of certain events uniformly following one another . But when we have found ...
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... cause , the second effect . Thus our general confidence in the uniformity of the true relations or sequences of events is an original or instinctive principle , and not the result of experience ; but it is by experience that we ...
... cause , the second effect . Thus our general confidence in the uniformity of the true relations or sequences of events is an original or instinctive principle , and not the result of experience ; but it is by experience that we ...
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... cause . This is , in fact , that great and fundamental truth by which , from the properties of a known effect , we infer the powers and qualities of an unknown cause . It is in this man- ner , for example , that from the works of nature ...
... cause . This is , in fact , that great and fundamental truth by which , from the properties of a known effect , we infer the powers and qualities of an unknown cause . It is in this man- ner , for example , that from the works of nature ...
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Página 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Página 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Página 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Página 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Página 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Página 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...