Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author |
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... true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey with his claws ...
... true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey with his claws ...
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... true desti- nation . Human creatures are born into the world with various dispositions . According to the memorable saying of Themistocles , One man can play upon a psaltery or harp , and another can by political skill and ingenuity ...
... true desti- nation . Human creatures are born into the world with various dispositions . According to the memorable saying of Themistocles , One man can play upon a psaltery or harp , and another can by political skill and ingenuity ...
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... true . He sees the objects about him with an eye peculiarly his own ; the sounds that reach his ear , produce an effect upon him , and leave a me- mory behind , different from that which is experi- enced by his fellows . His perceptions ...
... true . He sees the objects about him with an eye peculiarly his own ; the sounds that reach his ear , produce an effect upon him , and leave a me- mory behind , different from that which is experi- enced by his fellows . His perceptions ...
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... true that we cannot suppose nature to be guided in her operations by the infinite divisible- ness of human pursuits in civilised society . But it is not the less true that one man is by his structure best fitted to excel in some one in ...
... true that we cannot suppose nature to be guided in her operations by the infinite divisible- ness of human pursuits in civilised society . But it is not the less true that one man is by his structure best fitted to excel in some one in ...
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... true test of the capacity of the individual , is where the desire to succeed , and accomplish some- thing effective , is already awakened in the youthful mind . Whoever has found out what it is in which he is qualified to excel , from ...
... true test of the capacity of the individual , is where the desire to succeed , and accomplish some- thing effective , is already awakened in the youthful mind . Whoever has found out what it is in which he is qualified to excel , from ...
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Page 129 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 187 - 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 328 - Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance...
Page 128 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 192 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Page 118 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 213 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 74 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 100 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Page 29 - 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.