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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... , profecto speciem æternitatis imitari maluit ; non igitur dubium , quin æternitatem maluerit exsequi . " Most of what remains of this little work is taken from Plato it was difficult to collect his real meaning from them OF THE WORLD . 45.
... , profecto speciem æternitatis imitari maluit ; non igitur dubium , quin æternitatem maluerit exsequi . " Most of what remains of this little work is taken from Plato it was difficult to collect his real meaning from them OF THE WORLD . 45.
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... remains without any of the ideas which are familiar to others , until * We see the impression of the human mind as it rose to greater im- provements in its knowledge and thought , in the sarcastic observations of Pliny , on the kind of ...
... remains without any of the ideas which are familiar to others , until * We see the impression of the human mind as it rose to greater im- provements in its knowledge and thought , in the sarcastic observations of Pliny , on the kind of ...
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... remains of their nation out of Georgia , " the land of their fathers . " Unless the missionaries had been among them , they could not have used language like this in 1825 , though they might have had some less definite feelings of the ...
... remains of their nation out of Georgia , " the land of their fathers . " Unless the missionaries had been among them , they could not have used language like this in 1825 , though they might have had some less definite feelings of the ...
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... remains with them as impenetrable as ever . In the meantime it is quite sufficient for every present purpose of our existence , to know that we , like our fore- fathers , shall in due time be dismissed from what we are now sensorially ...
... remains with them as impenetrable as ever . In the meantime it is quite sufficient for every present purpose of our existence , to know that we , like our fore- fathers , shall in due time be dismissed from what we are now sensorially ...
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... remains just as concealed from us as it has always been . We designate it by the name of sound . We have traced one most curious relation which it has with light , and we can as yet get no farther . It may be the luminous fluid itself ...
... remains just as concealed from us as it has always been . We designate it by the name of sound . We have traced one most curious relation which it has with light , and we can as yet get no farther . It may be the luminous fluid itself ...
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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...