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... philosophers ; whom methinks I see coming towards me with a sullen gravity , as though they could not abide vice by daylight ; rudely clothed , for to witness out- wardly their contempt of outward things ; with books in their hands ...
... philosophers ; whom methinks I see coming towards me with a sullen gravity , as though they could not abide vice by daylight ; rudely clothed , for to witness out- wardly their contempt of outward things ; with books in their hands ...
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... Philosophers and divines agree in that , that the will of man cannot be idle , and the first act that the will of man produces , is love ; for till it love something , prefer and choose something , till it would have something , it is ...
... Philosophers and divines agree in that , that the will of man cannot be idle , and the first act that the will of man produces , is love ; for till it love something , prefer and choose something , till it would have something , it is ...
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... philosophical studies . He is said to have assisted Lord Bacon in the translation into Latin of some of his English works . He became ( 1608 ) tutor in the Devonshire family , and travelled with his pupils at intervals during many years ...
... philosophical studies . He is said to have assisted Lord Bacon in the translation into Latin of some of his English works . He became ( 1608 ) tutor in the Devonshire family , and travelled with his pupils at intervals during many years ...
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... wanting in philosophical precision and sometimes too idiomatic and colloquial and too indefinite and figurative for the abstruse subjects with which he has to deal . 1 . 6 The Opening of the Essay of Human JOHN LOCKE 1632-1704.
... wanting in philosophical precision and sometimes too idiomatic and colloquial and too indefinite and figurative for the abstruse subjects with which he has to deal . 1 . 6 The Opening of the Essay of Human JOHN LOCKE 1632-1704.
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... philosophical questions . He lived a studious and retired life , spending much of his time abroad , either in Italy , where he studied the fine arts elaborately , or in Holland , where he conversed with Bayle , and other free spirits ...
... philosophical questions . He lived a studious and retired life , spending much of his time abroad , either in Italy , where he studied the fine arts elaborately , or in Holland , where he conversed with Bayle , and other free spirits ...
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Page 314 - IF a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 11 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 94 - God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 303 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 295 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 1 - MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 302 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 240 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 363 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.