Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Band 2,Ausgabe 72Harper, 1844 |
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... inferences from them . He has tried to be careful never to press his conclusions beyond the boundary of the deductions which his groundwork warranted ; A 2 and to present to his readers , not only what Jeen o PREFACE .
... inferences from them . He has tried to be careful never to press his conclusions beyond the boundary of the deductions which his groundwork warranted ; A 2 and to present to his readers , not only what Jeen o PREFACE .
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... Never before has it been so much or so successfully attended to . It is even taking the form of annual festivals and theatrical exhibitions , in order to concentrate and stimulate the public attention to its merits and pursuits . It has ...
... Never before has it been so much or so successfully attended to . It is even taking the form of annual festivals and theatrical exhibitions , in order to concentrate and stimulate the public attention to its merits and pursuits . It has ...
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... never know , have brought within our power personally to secure ! † Night Thoughts . He continues with a fine enthusiasm : " How great , while yet we tread the kindred clod- How great , in the wild whirl of time's pursuits , To stop and ...
... never know , have brought within our power personally to secure ! † Night Thoughts . He continues with a fine enthusiasm : " How great , while yet we tread the kindred clod- How great , in the wild whirl of time's pursuits , To stop and ...
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... never to make our individual opinions the stand- ard of what is true or false ; never to avert our eyes from what is better , because we dislike it ; and reverentially to refrain from disregarding the sacred light that has been pro ...
... never to make our individual opinions the stand- ard of what is true or false ; never to avert our eyes from what is better , because we dislike it ; and reverentially to refrain from disregarding the sacred light that has been pro ...
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... never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and Sarmatian pagans would have made us , if these con- quering invaders had not been Christianized . Can I then but be grateful for having been preserved , by what ...
... never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and Sarmatian pagans would have made us , if these con- quering invaders had not been Christianized . Can I then but be grateful for having been preserved , by what ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Seite 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Seite 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Seite 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Seite 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Seite 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Seite 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Seite 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Seite 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Seite 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Seite 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...