The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man: Or, Compendious Dissertations, Respecting Social and Domestic Relations and Concerns, and the Various Economy of Lifeauthor, 1818 - 421 páginas |
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... human family has the greatest amount of enjoyment . And though in such a state of things there is little to amaze , there is very much that is calculated to afford sound instruction , and to humanize and elevate the mind . At the period ...
... human family has the greatest amount of enjoyment . And though in such a state of things there is little to amaze , there is very much that is calculated to afford sound instruction , and to humanize and elevate the mind . At the period ...
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... human pravity , though rather in the heart than the arm , that we are so pleased with scenes of real and deepest distress , provided they involve not our own dear selves ; that we hanker to enjoy the sight of an execution , and that human ...
... human pravity , though rather in the heart than the arm , that we are so pleased with scenes of real and deepest distress , provided they involve not our own dear selves ; that we hanker to enjoy the sight of an execution , and that human ...
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... human character ? Did it not occasion such a degree of unnatural callousness , that we could read or hear of thousands , of scores of thousands , being slain in battle , almost without any emotion of pity or sense of sympathy ; -that ...
... human character ? Did it not occasion such a degree of unnatural callousness , that we could read or hear of thousands , of scores of thousands , being slain in battle , almost without any emotion of pity or sense of sympathy ; -that ...
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... human rea- son . In their wild conceptions , what had been called the light of antiquity was gross darkness , and its max- ims and institutions worthy only to be swept away as vile dross . The men of all former ages they regarded as ...
... human rea- son . In their wild conceptions , what had been called the light of antiquity was gross darkness , and its max- ims and institutions worthy only to be swept away as vile dross . The men of all former ages they regarded as ...
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... human agency , the principal sower . The chequered age that ourselves live in , is , along with all its pernicious follies and heavy iniquities , an age fraught with useful discoveries , with rare inven- tions , and with grand désigns ...
... human agency , the principal sower . The chequered age that ourselves live in , is , along with all its pernicious follies and heavy iniquities , an age fraught with useful discoveries , with rare inven- tions , and with grand désigns ...
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alike Alp Arslan betimes body book of Samuel Carim character child childhood christian circumstances civilized common condition conjugal rites daugh decalogue degree disposition enjoyment evil excellent faculties fashion faults feelings female friends full grown men give habits hand happy heart honour human idleness industry instances intel intellectual kind labour learning lence less living mankind manner marked victims marriage means memory ment mind moral mother nature neglect neighbour Neoptolemus ness never NUMBER pains parents perhaps persons Philoctetes pleasure possess poverty principle prudence rank readers reading reason regard remark respect sachem scarcely scorn scurvy seldom sense shame Sirach society sort speak species temper thee thing thou thought tion tongue truth turn vanity vice virtue wealth wheel of fortune whole woman women wonderful boy word worldly wretched young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 285 - While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Página 107 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 95 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Página 271 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Página 271 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Página 245 - Apart, she sigh'd; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so — 'Perhaps he will not sink'.
Página 311 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Página 114 - House he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ''He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Página 62 - O YE WHO HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ALP ARSLAN EXALTED TO THE HEAVENS, REPAIR TO MARU, AND YOU WILL BEHOLD IT BURIED IN THE DUST!
Página 76 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...