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... power of conceiving is very limited : yet that does not affect our power of understanding , and of accurate reasoning . I understand a million as easily as a score , but I cannot ( pictorially ) conceive a million . I can reason 2.
... power of conceiving is very limited : yet that does not affect our power of understanding , and of accurate reasoning . I understand a million as easily as a score , but I cannot ( pictorially ) conceive a million . I can reason 2.
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... reason about Him . Symbols of Him , metaphors concerning Him , notoriously inaccurate , may often , not only not damage , but help our severest reasoning . ( 2. ) ABSTRACT TERMS . To distinguish the Abstract from the Concrete belongs in ...
... reason about Him . Symbols of Him , metaphors concerning Him , notoriously inaccurate , may often , not only not damage , but help our severest reasoning . ( 2. ) ABSTRACT TERMS . To distinguish the Abstract from the Concrete belongs in ...
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... reasons which need not here be stated , begins from Definitions : hence arose the notion , that to begin from Definition is the very law of Science . CICERO lays this down concerning Duties ; yet in fact he does not do it : his good ...
... reasons which need not here be stated , begins from Definitions : hence arose the notion , that to begin from Definition is the very law of Science . CICERO lays this down concerning Duties ; yet in fact he does not do it : his good ...
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... reason downward to all truth . - This I find to be THIRLWALL'S judg ment in his History of Greece ; and so far as I know any thing of the facts , they lie decidedly in that direction . Pro- fessor BADEN POWELL'S remarks on even ...
... reason downward to all truth . - This I find to be THIRLWALL'S judg ment in his History of Greece ; and so far as I know any thing of the facts , they lie decidedly in that direction . Pro- fessor BADEN POWELL'S remarks on even ...
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... reason neither phrase is a fit definition of man : for the definition ought to tell what is the essence of a thing :-( rather , it should be , what is the essential meaning of a word ) . But all this does but show more forcibly , that ...
... reason neither phrase is a fit definition of man : for the definition ought to tell what is the essence of a thing :-( rather , it should be , what is the essential meaning of a word ) . But all this does but show more forcibly , that ...
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ÆSCHYLUS AGATHOCLES Analogy ancient antiquity Arabs argument army assembly Assyrian Athenian Athens Babylon barbarians beautiful become believe CÆSAR Cæsura called Carthage Carthaginians character chief citizens civilized colonies commerce concerning conquered consuls cultivated definition doctrine of Chances Egypt Egyptian elected empire English Epic equal fact force foreign give Greece Greek HANNIBAL Hebrew hence HERODOTUS HOMER honour horse human ILIAD imagination India Induction infer interest king land language Latin LECTURE less limits loan logic mean ment Mesopotamia metaphor metre military mind modern moral nation natural never Nevertheless Nineveh noble perhaps Persian Phoenicians plebeians poem poet poetical poetry POLYBIUS Prætor priests probably proposition prose Punic reason REESE LIBRARY religion religious republic Roman Roman republic Rome savage Scythians seems Senate sense Sicily slaves suppose Syllogism taxes thing tion tribes verbal truth vote whole words
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Page 113 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 109 - For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. How many hours of night or day In those suspended pangs I lay, I could not tell ; I scarcely knew If this were human breath I drew.
Page 135 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Page 131 - They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn: The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness; the...
Page 138 - With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; Restless it rolls, now fix'd and now anon Flashing afar, — and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Page 129 - But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe.
Page 116 - To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song, Shall many an age that wail prolong: Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield ! XXXV.
Page 81 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 136 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems...