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... attaining to higher gratification than any which he has hitherto enjoyed . In our own country , two views of the constitution of the world and of human nature have long been prevalent , differing widely from each other , and which , if ...
... attaining to higher gratification than any which he has hitherto enjoyed . In our own country , two views of the constitution of the world and of human nature have long been prevalent , differing widely from each other , and which , if ...
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... attain to maturity , will be deficient in the elements which are want- ing in the germ ; if we sow an acorn entire in its parts , but only half ripened , or damaged in its texture by damp or other causes , the seedling oak will be ...
... attain to maturity , will be deficient in the elements which are want- ing in the germ ; if we sow an acorn entire in its parts , but only half ripened , or damaged in its texture by damp or other causes , the seedling oak will be ...
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... attain honour and distinction . Imagine him to rise early and sit up late , and to put forth all the energies of a power- ful mind in buying and selling , and in becoming rich . It is obvious that benevolence , veneration , and ...
... attain honour and distinction . Imagine him to rise early and sit up late , and to put forth all the energies of a power- ful mind in buying and selling , and in becoming rich . It is obvious that benevolence , veneration , and ...
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... attain- ments , would reckon himself happy if , while his faculties were still vigorous , he were told , " Now you must stop , and live upon the past . " And the reason is still the same : the pursuit of new acquirements and the ...
... attain- ments , would reckon himself happy if , while his faculties were still vigorous , he were told , " Now you must stop , and live upon the past . " And the reason is still the same : the pursuit of new acquirements and the ...
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... attaining this exquisite power . In reflecting on his performance , I was forcibly struck with the idea that until a being constituted like Paganini appeared , we had no means of discovering that the substances composing a violin and ...
... attaining this exquisite power . In reflecting on his performance , I was forcibly struck with the idea that until a being constituted like Paganini appeared , we had no means of discovering that the substances composing a violin and ...
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.