Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author |
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... called to any particular part or member of my body , I may be morally sure that there is something amiss in the processes of that part or member . As long as the whole economy of the frame goes on well and with- out interruption , our ...
... called to any particular part or member of my body , I may be morally sure that there is something amiss in the processes of that part or member . As long as the whole economy of the frame goes on well and with- out interruption , our ...
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... called to any parti- cular part or member of the body , except when there is somewhat amiss in that part or member . And , in like manner as we do not think of any one part or member in particular , so neither do we con- sider our ...
... called to any parti- cular part or member of the body , except when there is somewhat amiss in that part or member . And , in like manner as we do not think of any one part or member in particular , so neither do we con- sider our ...
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... called the state of nature . The full - grown man in the mean time is well pleased when he escapes from the ergastulum where he had previously dwelt , and in which he had expe- rienced corporal infliction and corporal restraint . At ...
... called the state of nature . The full - grown man in the mean time is well pleased when he escapes from the ergastulum where he had previously dwelt , and in which he had expe- rienced corporal infliction and corporal restraint . At ...
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... called the higher departments of intel- lect . A certain familiar acquaintance with lan- guage and the shades of language as a lesson , will be beneficial to all . The youth who has expended only six months in acquiring the rudiments of ...
... called the higher departments of intel- lect . A certain familiar acquaintance with lan- guage and the shades of language as a lesson , will be beneficial to all . The youth who has expended only six months in acquiring the rudiments of ...
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... called having an ear . Instances nearly as precocious are related of per- sons , who afterwards distinguished themselves in the art of painting . These two kinds of original destination appear to be placed beyond the reach of ...
... called having an ear . Instances nearly as precocious are related of per- sons , who afterwards distinguished themselves in the art of painting . These two kinds of original destination appear to be placed beyond the reach of ...
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Page 234 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Page 86 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 135 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 310 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Page 312 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 87 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Page 251 - And suppose they do, do they likewise abstain from unprofitable conversation ? Yet all this is unquestionably sinful, and "grieves the Holy Spirit of God :" yea, and " for every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account in the day of judgment.
Page 312 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 140 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Page 21 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.