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... things— Heaven's beauteous plan , and Nature's hidden springs . Knowledge , the most admir'd , when understood- Most glorious object of the wise and good : - Knowledge , which shews , united in man's frame An earthly portion , an ...
... things— Heaven's beauteous plan , and Nature's hidden springs . Knowledge , the most admir'd , when understood- Most glorious object of the wise and good : - Knowledge , which shews , united in man's frame An earthly portion , an ...
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... things , it is the quantity of their continuance measured by the distance of two instants . As the time of a man is the man's continuance from the instant of his first breath , till the instant of his last gasp . " - Thus time serves ...
... things , it is the quantity of their continuance measured by the distance of two instants . As the time of a man is the man's continuance from the instant of his first breath , till the instant of his last gasp . " - Thus time serves ...
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... thing at rest , as to a multitude in motion . Motion , however , is necessary to mea- sure and compare the portions of duration ; for to say accu- rately how long or how short the continuance of a thing may be , without a reference to ...
... thing at rest , as to a multitude in motion . Motion , however , is necessary to mea- sure and compare the portions of duration ; for to say accu- rately how long or how short the continuance of a thing may be , without a reference to ...
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... things which make me believe that the Comet which Appian saw in the year 1531 , was the same with that which Kepler and Longiomontanus more accu- rately described in the year 1607 , and which I myself have seen return , and observed in ...
... things which make me believe that the Comet which Appian saw in the year 1531 , was the same with that which Kepler and Longiomontanus more accu- rately described in the year 1607 , and which I myself have seen return , and observed in ...
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... thing less obscure . He thus proceeds : - " At the third day of the change the wind shifted to the south - west , when we proceeded up Channel . The circumstance , as just stated , made a strong impression on my mind , and gave me the ...
... thing less obscure . He thus proceeds : - " At the third day of the change the wind shifted to the south - west , when we proceeded up Channel . The circumstance , as just stated , made a strong impression on my mind , and gave me the ...
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Page 373 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 365 - Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man...
Page 354 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 41 - Savage did not exempt him; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 371 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Page 221 - ... of these receptacles, walked about the streets till he was weary, and lay down in the summer upon a bulk, or in the winter, with his associates in poverty, among the ashes of a glass-house.
Page 365 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die...
Page 187 - Lord Tyrconnel, whatever were his motives, upon his promise to lay aside his design of exposing the cruelty of his mother, received him into his family, treated him as his equal, and engaged to allow him a pension of two hundred pounds a year.
Page 40 - Such were the life and death of Richard Savage, a man equally distinguished by his virtues and vices, and at once remarkable for his weaknesses and abilities.
Page 221 - Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.