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... reason in the pursuit of truth . This practice likewise affords an additional motive to the acquisition of knowledge . The mind of man is never satisfied without some object for its pursuits : it is related that a gentle- man recovering ...
... reason in the pursuit of truth . This practice likewise affords an additional motive to the acquisition of knowledge . The mind of man is never satisfied without some object for its pursuits : it is related that a gentle- man recovering ...
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Philomathic institution. more who think with greater accuracy and reason , -with more correctness , have not the art of expressing their ideas with perspicuity ; they are unable to do justice to themselves , or to afford profit or ...
Philomathic institution. more who think with greater accuracy and reason , -with more correctness , have not the art of expressing their ideas with perspicuity ; they are unable to do justice to themselves , or to afford profit or ...
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... reason , to the bright visions of fancy and imagination . Amongst the personal and immediate benefits which we may enumerate , are the important and interesting subjects of REFLECTION , which arise out of the principles , the sentiments ...
... reason , to the bright visions of fancy and imagination . Amongst the personal and immediate benefits which we may enumerate , are the important and interesting subjects of REFLECTION , which arise out of the principles , the sentiments ...
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... reason with which God has endowed him , and advance him- self in the scale of moral being , literary institutions , by ren- dering the treasures of learning easily accessible , afford op- portunities of mental improvement which could be ...
... reason with which God has endowed him , and advance him- self in the scale of moral being , literary institutions , by ren- dering the treasures of learning easily accessible , afford op- portunities of mental improvement which could be ...
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... reason with accuracy and precision , -to teach the indolent to labour , the careless to attend , and the obtuse to discriminate ; if it be praiseworthy to substitute candour and charity in the place of prejudice and intolerance , and to ...
... reason with accuracy and precision , -to teach the indolent to labour , the careless to attend , and the obtuse to discriminate ; if it be praiseworthy to substitute candour and charity in the place of prejudice and intolerance , and to ...
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Página 254 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying, in the Hebrew tongue, '• Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads." And I said,
Página 140 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 397 - And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Página 255 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Página 290 - Whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...
Página 283 - Yet he, who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king ; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Página 244 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Página 398 - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
Página 139 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin...
Página 254 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.