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It has been felt by many careful and anxious metaphysicians , that " To expostulate Why day is day , night night , and time is time , Were nothing but to waste night , day , and time . ” Yet it is clearly impossible , until some ...
It has been felt by many careful and anxious metaphysicians , that " To expostulate Why day is day , night night , and time is time , Were nothing but to waste night , day , and time . ” Yet it is clearly impossible , until some ...
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Seite 111 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Seite 195 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 195 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Seite 195 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn-door Stoutly struts his dames before...
Seite 11 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (John v.
Seite 29 - A good sherrissack hath a twofold operation in it: it ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Seite 26 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world: And for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; My soul the father: and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts...
Seite 66 - ... of spelling, reading, writing, and calculating, and gradually became acquainted with the persons and objects around, like a being for the first time brought into the world. In these exercises she made considerable proficiency. But after a few months, another fit of somnolency invaded her. On rousing from it, she found herself restored to the state she was in before the first paroxysm ; but was wholly ignorant of every event and occurrence that had befallen her afterwards. The former condition...
Seite 66 - State, and the latter the New State ; and she is as unconscious of her double character as two distinct persons are of their respective natures. For example, in her old state, she possesses all her original knowledge ; in her new state only what she acquired since.
Seite 99 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Principles of Phrenology |
| Autor/in | Sidney Smith |
| Verlag | William Tait, 1838 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Juni 2006 |
| Länge | 223 Seiten |
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