The Light of Nature Pursued, Band 1Hilliard and Brown, 1831 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ABRAHAM TUCKER absolutely infinite action Æneid apparent magnitude appear appetite apprehend assent attain body cardinal virtue cause cerning CHAP common compound conceive consider contemplation continually course desire discern effect endeavor enjoyment Epicurus esteem exert existence experience faculties fancy feel former give habit hand Hylozoists ideas imagination impulse indifference infinitely divisible judge judgment kind knowledge look Lucretius mankind manner matter ment mind mischief moral motion motives nature never objects observed occasion operation optic nerves order of succession ourselves pain particles particular passion perceive perception perform perhaps perpetually persons Plato pleasure possess present proceed produce proper purpose qualities reason receive reflection render rience rules satisfaction sensation sense sion soever sometimes spirit stand substance summum bonum suppose tain things thought throw tincture tion turn understanding uneasiness unless virtue volition whence wherefore wherein whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 450 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 246 - To whom thus half abash't Adam repli'd. Neither her out-side form'd so fair, nor aught In procreation common to all kinds (Though higher of the genial Bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem) So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Seite 136 - Trains of Motion in the Animal Spirits, which once set a going, continue in the same Steps they have been used to, which by often treading, are worn into a smooth Path, and the Motion in it becomes easy, and as it were natural.
Seite 481 - Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there ; if I make my bed in the grave, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
Seite xx - have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has been my daily employment.
Seite 149 - ... anew during her absence, and in such manner as exhibits almost at one view all their mutual relations, dependences and consequences — which shows that our organs do not stand idle the moment we cease to employ them, but continue the motions we put into them after they have gone out of sight, thereby working themselves to a glibness and smoothness, and falling into a more regular and orderly posture than we could have placed them with all our skill and industry.
Seite 258 - Tis art and knowledge which draw forth The hidden seeds of native worth : They blow those sparks, and make them rise Into such flames as touch the skies.
Seite 88 - ... tale of violence and treachery, in which neither the motives nor the characters of the actors sufficiently justify them. The Italian too, by making Iphigenia an unwilling captive, takes away from Cymon the only excuse he could have had. The three charming lines with which Dryden's poem opens, Old as I am, for lady's love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet...
Seite xxvi - Achilles's spear that healed the wounds it had made before ; so this knowledge serves to repair the damage itself had occasioned : and this perhaps is all it is good for, it casts no additional light upon the paths of life, but disperses the clouds with which it had overspread them before : it advances not the traveller one step on his journey, but conducts him back again to the spot from whence he had wandered.
Seite xii - I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation, upon the several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together.