Indian Reminiscences: Or, The Bengal Moofussul MiscellanyE. Bull, 1837 - 339 Seiten |
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... learned doctor enlarged on the embarrassment he felt , to meet the nobility and gentry formally invited to assemble and judge of his abilities as a teacher , by the proficiency and talents of those confided to his care . In this dilemma ...
... learned doctor enlarged on the embarrassment he felt , to meet the nobility and gentry formally invited to assemble and judge of his abilities as a teacher , by the proficiency and talents of those confided to his care . In this dilemma ...
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... learned Dr. Free , when his blind attachment to this study makes him declare , that the proper definition of a man is , " a being who can prove the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones !! " This is almost as bad as ...
... learned Dr. Free , when his blind attachment to this study makes him declare , that the proper definition of a man is , " a being who can prove the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones !! " This is almost as bad as ...
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... learned Dr. Free , to prove it , rather more than to prove his problem about the triangles . J. J. Rousseau is almost the only writer who stands forward in their defence , and even he but indirectly ; he says - " il n - y - a qu'un ...
... learned Dr. Free , to prove it , rather more than to prove his problem about the triangles . J. J. Rousseau is almost the only writer who stands forward in their defence , and even he but indirectly ; he says - " il n - y - a qu'un ...
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... learned men , yet , this ought only more strongly to impress on us the wisdom of avoiding those rocks on which even they have split . For if the most wise can be so led astray by their power , what trust can we place in our frailty ? I ...
... learned men , yet , this ought only more strongly to impress on us the wisdom of avoiding those rocks on which even they have split . For if the most wise can be so led astray by their power , what trust can we place in our frailty ? I ...
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... learned divines have seriously argued in its favour in many grave and ponderous folio volumes !! Nor is it less amusing now - a - days to remember , that the Council of Agda , at which were assembled all the chief dignitaries of the ...
... learned divines have seriously argued in its favour in many grave and ponderous folio volumes !! Nor is it less amusing now - a - days to remember , that the Council of Agda , at which were assembled all the chief dignitaries of the ...
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Seite 217 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Seite 84 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in light ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise.
Seite 179 - Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Seite 75 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Seite 86 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Seite 301 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Seite 83 - Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.
Seite xviii - When I reflect what an inconsiderable little atom every single man is, with respect to the whole creation, methinks it is a shame to be concerned at the removal of such a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom,...
Seite 77 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ''Hearts of oak...
Seite xviii - There are reasons enough, in the fourth chapter of the same book, to make any young man contented with the prospect of death. " For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair to men, and an unspotted life is old age. He was taken away speedily, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul,