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... eternity ; or , on the contrary , miserable for this short term of years , and happy for a whole eternity : what words are sufficient to express that folly and want of con- sideration which in such a case makes a wrong choice ? I here ...
... eternity ; or , on the contrary , miserable for this short term of years , and happy for a whole eternity : what words are sufficient to express that folly and want of con- sideration which in such a case makes a wrong choice ? I here ...
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... eternity , or infi- nite duration , as a line that has neither a beginning nor an end . In our speculations of infinite space , we consider that particular place in which we exist as a kind of centre to the whole expansion . In our ...
... eternity , or infi- nite duration , as a line that has neither a beginning nor an end . In our speculations of infinite space , we consider that particular place in which we exist as a kind of centre to the whole expansion . In our ...
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... eternity under two divisions , which we may call in English that eternity which is past , and that eternity which is to come . The learned terms of Eternitas a parte ante , and Æternitas a parte post , may be more amusing to the reader ...
... eternity under two divisions , which we may call in English that eternity which is past , and that eternity which is to come . The learned terms of Eternitas a parte ante , and Æternitas a parte post , may be more amusing to the reader ...
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... eternity which is to come , in adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can never come up to any fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity : but at the same time we are sure that whatever was once present ...
... eternity which is to come , in adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can never come up to any fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity : but at the same time we are sure that whatever was once present ...
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... eternity . 6 Thirdly , That whatever exists after the manner of created beings , or according to any notions which we have of existence , could not have existed from eternity . < Fourthly , That this Eternal Being must there- fore be ...
... eternity . 6 Thirdly , That whatever exists after the manner of created beings , or according to any notions which we have of existence , could not have existed from eternity . < Fourthly , That this Eternal Being must there- fore be ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admirer Aglaüs agreeable appear bacon battles of Blenheim beauty body CICERO consider creature delight dervis desire divine doth DRYDEN endeavour entertained eternity eyes faculties fair lady fancy flitch of bacon fortune freebench FRIDAY gentleman give glorious glory Gyges hand happiness Harpath hath hear heart heaven Hilpa honour hors d'œuvre humour husband imagination infinite kind king lady Lesbia letter light lived look lover mankind manner marriage married Middle Temple mind miserable MONDAY nature neighbours nerally ness never night observed occasion OCTOBER 22 ourselves OVID pain paper passion persons philosopher pleased pleasure present pretty reader reason secret Shalum shew soul SPECTATOR sure tell temper tence thing thou thought tion Tirzah told traitor's heart trees truth VIRG virtue WEDNESDAY Whichenovre whole widow wife words write young Zilpah
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Seite 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Seite 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Seite 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Seite 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Seite 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Seite 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Seite 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...