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are by no means uncommon . • His bushy grey eyebrows threw a strange and
almost unnatural shade over the deep recesses beneath , across which , at times
, like the foam swept over the dark billows of the spirit , a light and glowing track ...
are by no means uncommon . • His bushy grey eyebrows threw a strange and
almost unnatural shade over the deep recesses beneath , across which , at times
, like the foam swept over the dark billows of the spirit , a light and glowing track ...
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For the essence of wisdom consists in this , that its every aim serves as the
means for a higher purpose , and all these means and aims closely connected
unite in one last object . We must then , since we ascribe the highest wisdom to
God ...
For the essence of wisdom consists in this , that its every aim serves as the
means for a higher purpose , and all these means and aims closely connected
unite in one last object . We must then , since we ascribe the highest wisdom to
God ...
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If we understand the Reverend Bishop aright , he means to say that Moses may
have had access to means independent of supernatural ones , for collecting the
facts of his history . Perhaps he had , and therefore it would have been ...
If we understand the Reverend Bishop aright , he means to say that Moses may
have had access to means independent of supernatural ones , for collecting the
facts of his history . Perhaps he had , and therefore it would have been ...
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I constantly ask myself , whether it be possible to devise any means by which to
establish , in a new country , such a proportion between people and land , as
would render labour plentiful , and not extravagantly dear . Here , we bave , it is
true ...
I constantly ask myself , whether it be possible to devise any means by which to
establish , in a new country , such a proportion between people and land , as
would render labour plentiful , and not extravagantly dear . Here , we bave , it is
true ...
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A powerful inducement is , therefore , established to endeavour to ascertain ,
whether means cannot be found for making good the revenue that would be - lost
by giving the public the benefit of the proposed reform of taxation . ' Although a ...
A powerful inducement is , therefore , established to endeavour to ascertain ,
whether means cannot be found for making good the revenue that would be - lost
by giving the public the benefit of the proposed reform of taxation . ' Although a ...
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Seite 282 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 118 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Seite 282 - Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no general ever planned his battles more judiciously.
Seite 518 - The shield of his mighty men is made red ; the valiant men are in scarlet : — the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Seite 328 - THE awful shadow of some unseen power Floats, though unseen, among us — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower ; Like moonbeams, that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Seite 518 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Seite 328 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.
Seite 328 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope...
Seite 283 - This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalising his agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.
Seite 592 - ... the reports of his medical attendant were far from establishing the existence of any thing like lunacy. Under this uncertainty, I deemed it right to communicate to my parents, that if I were to consider Lord Byron's past conduct as that of a person of sound mind, nothing could induce me to return to him.