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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... perceive and to de- scribe them . For this purpose he has selected such topics as he thought would most impressively and satisfac- torily display them , and has endeavoured to eluci- date his views by such facts and reasonings as have ...
... perceive and to de- scribe them . For this purpose he has selected such topics as he thought would most impressively and satisfac- torily display them , and has endeavoured to eluci- date his views by such facts and reasonings as have ...
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... perceive it . It is a difficulty which is insepa rable from the subject , but yet ought not to be deemed a sufficient reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects ...
... perceive it . It is a difficulty which is insepa rable from the subject , but yet ought not to be deemed a sufficient reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects ...
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... perceive what a Cimmerian darkness of mind we should have been in on these momentous subjects , and on all the others which they have improved , if they had never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and ...
... perceive what a Cimmerian darkness of mind we should have been in on these momentous subjects , and on all the others which they have improved , if they had never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and ...
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... perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and sympathy which always exist be- tween intellect and intellect in proportion ...
... perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and sympathy which always exist be- tween intellect and intellect in proportion ...
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... perceive that it has been quite otherwise . A very complicated and diversified plan has been adopted and acted upon through his series of generations ; and the great purpose of these farther Letters will be to attempt , though with ...
... perceive that it has been quite otherwise . A very complicated and diversified plan has been adopted and acted upon through his series of generations ; and the great purpose of these farther Letters will be to attempt , though with ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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...