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... , but direct us to the place where the star appears , and point to the very house where the babe lieth ? " a See note 2 A at the end of this Tract , p . 172 . Contents . 1. Is the Love of Knowledge a Motive xii PREFACE .
... , but direct us to the place where the star appears , and point to the very house where the babe lieth ? " a See note 2 A at the end of this Tract , p . 172 . Contents . 1. Is the Love of Knowledge a Motive xii PREFACE .
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... appears then that the impressions made by objects depend much upon the time at which they strike us . When the mind is in perfect repose ; when its surface is not agitated by the least breath of pas- sion ; it may be awakened by ...
... appears then that the impressions made by objects depend much upon the time at which they strike us . When the mind is in perfect repose ; when its surface is not agitated by the least breath of pas- sion ; it may be awakened by ...
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... appear to posterity . These magical effects , so far as we can hitherto conjecture , are produced three ways ; viz . ( 1. ) by self - multiplication , as in fire , and those poisons , called specific ; as also in motions , which pass ...
... appear to posterity . These magical effects , so far as we can hitherto conjecture , are produced three ways ; viz . ( 1. ) by self - multiplication , as in fire , and those poisons , called specific ; as also in motions , which pass ...
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... appear to be of the value of commerce , the arts of a civilized life , and the lights of literature ; which , if they have abated the force of some of the natural virtues by the luxury which attends them , have taken out likewise the ...
... appear to be of the value of commerce , the arts of a civilized life , and the lights of literature ; which , if they have abated the force of some of the natural virtues by the luxury which attends them , have taken out likewise the ...
Page 108
... done the most essential ser- vices to mankind , have been the most free from the impulses of vanity . Lycurgus and Solon , those two excellent lawgivers , appear to have had none : So- crates , the prime apostle of reason , Euclid and 108.
... done the most essential ser- vices to mankind , have been the most free from the impulses of vanity . Lycurgus and Solon , those two excellent lawgivers , appear to have had none : So- crates , the prime apostle of reason , Euclid and 108.
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Abraham Tucker acquisition of know allure appears attended beauty behold bienveillance bodies cause child Cicero conceive creatures d'une delight Demosthenes desire disposition doth effect endeavours Epictetus Euph Euripides evil excite feare greatest hand happiness hath head heart human ignorance Isocrates jentlemen jentlenesse Jerom judgement kepe kind labours Lady Jane Grey learning learninge ledge les Plaisirs light living Lord Bacon love of excellence love of knowledge Lucretius maner master men's ment mind misanthropi moral motives nature never noble object observed pain Paresa passed passion peines perfect peut Plaisirs Plato Pleasures of Sense pleasures of taste powers praise Pythagoras reason says schole scholemaster sensible shews Sir Richard Sackville Socrates soul spaniel slept speak spirit surelie sweet taulke temn things thought tions Tobit tract trewe true truth ture unto vanity virtue vulgar wisdom wise witte yonge young youth
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Page 7 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 4 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 139 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 60 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 121 - Sudden glory," is the passion which maketh those "grimaces" called "laughter"; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them ; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
Page 1 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 137 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Page 123 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it...
Page 96 - Orpheus theatre; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Page 60 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A...