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... wisdom , and acting on the condition of man . He sought knowledge for these ends alone , and valued par- ticulars only as they opened light into some new truth , and conducted him to useful and comprehensive results . LESSON II ...
... wisdom , and acting on the condition of man . He sought knowledge for these ends alone , and valued par- ticulars only as they opened light into some new truth , and conducted him to useful and comprehensive results . LESSON II ...
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... wisdom . This has been an unhappy temptation to persons of a vigorous and gay fancy , to despise learning and study . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and sparkle in discourse upon common topics ; and thence they ...
... wisdom . This has been an unhappy temptation to persons of a vigorous and gay fancy , to despise learning and study . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and sparkle in discourse upon common topics ; and thence they ...
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... to pass an unjust value on almost every thing that occurs ; and every step you take in this path , is just so far out of the way to wisdom . и -.Full , sufficient , adequate , strong . Spell 30 SEQUEL TO THE A whole Family Extinct Page 138.
... to pass an unjust value on almost every thing that occurs ; and every step you take in this path , is just so far out of the way to wisdom . и -.Full , sufficient , adequate , strong . Spell 30 SEQUEL TO THE A whole Family Extinct Page 138.
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... wisdom . " God gives to those that are good in his sight , wisdom , and knowl- edge , and joy . " Watch against the pride of your own reason , and a vain conceit of your own intellectual powers , with the neglect of the divine aid and ...
... wisdom . " God gives to those that are good in his sight , wisdom , and knowl- edge , and joy . " Watch against the pride of your own reason , and a vain conceit of your own intellectual powers , with the neglect of the divine aid and ...
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... wisdom without them , and above them won by observation . Read not to contradict and confute , nor to believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and discourse , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , oth- ers to ...
... wisdom without them , and above them won by observation . Read not to contradict and confute , nor to believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and discourse , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , oth- ers to ...
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Page 240 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 156 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and...
Page 222 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 40 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Page 270 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 236 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 283 - Will he make many supplications unto thee ? Will he speak soft words unto thee ? Will he make a covenant with thee ? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens...
Page 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Page 270 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Page 283 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.