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... tion , as well as regulating the whole material system of the universe , are universally acknowledged , and constitute the elements of natural philosophy and che- mical science . Physiologists , medical practitioners , and all who take ...
... tion , as well as regulating the whole material system of the universe , are universally acknowledged , and constitute the elements of natural philosophy and che- mical science . Physiologists , medical practitioners , and all who take ...
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... tion as brute creatures have ; some leading most directly and immediately to the good of the community , and some most directly to private good . ' Man has several , which brutes have not ; particu- larly reflection or conscience , an ...
... tion as brute creatures have ; some leading most directly and immediately to the good of the community , and some most directly to private good . ' Man has several , which brutes have not ; particu- larly reflection or conscience , an ...
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... tion of external nature may be expected to be in har- mony with them , when predominant . Let us attend to Let us attend to these questions . . SECT . IV . - THE FACULTIES OF MAN COMPARED WITH EACH OTHER ; OR THE SUPREMACY OF THE MORAL ...
... tion of external nature may be expected to be in har- mony with them , when predominant . Let us attend to Let us attend to these questions . . SECT . IV . - THE FACULTIES OF MAN COMPARED WITH EACH OTHER ; OR THE SUPREMACY OF THE MORAL ...
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... tion and delight . Its exercise , like that of all the other faculties , is a source of great pleasure to the individual himself ; and nothing can be conceived more admirably adapted for affording it scope , than the system of creation ...
... tion and delight . Its exercise , like that of all the other faculties , is a source of great pleasure to the individual himself ; and nothing can be conceived more admirably adapted for affording it scope , than the system of creation ...
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... tion could be entered upon with confidence in the re- sult . If , then , this view of the constitution of nature were kept steadily in view , the occurrence of one acci- dent of this kind would suggest to Reflection means to prevent ...
... tion could be entered upon with confidence in the re- sult . If , then , this view of the constitution of nature were kept steadily in view , the occurrence of one acci- dent of this kind would suggest to Reflection means to prevent ...
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Page 13 - ... if that indeed can be called composition' in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
Page 13 - At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas! without the...
Page 130 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
Page 13 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Page 92 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 23 - ... determination to ride to Edinburgh next day, and make the best bargain he could in the way of compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and, with all the circumstances of the case floating upon his mind, had a dream to the following purpose. His father, who had been many years dead, appeared to him, he thought, and asked him why he was disturbed in his mind. In dreams men are not surprised at such apparitions. Mr.
Page 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Page 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Page 41 - For I know that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing ; for to will is present with me ; but how...