A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Band 5T. Becket, 1794 |
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... give me that broken shield : those feathers , that are rolled in the wind , place them near to Fillan , that less of his fame may fall . Lay me in that hollow rock . Raise no stone above me , lest one should ask about my fame . I am ...
... give me that broken shield : those feathers , that are rolled in the wind , place them near to Fillan , that less of his fame may fall . Lay me in that hollow rock . Raise no stone above me , lest one should ask about my fame . I am ...
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... gives them a high degree of anti- quity , and a reputation , whatever be their ge nealogy , which certainly they eminently deserve . But let me be pardoned for asking , of what ad- vantage to their national fame can fanciful inter ...
... gives them a high degree of anti- quity , and a reputation , whatever be their ge nealogy , which certainly they eminently deserve . But let me be pardoned for asking , of what ad- vantage to their national fame can fanciful inter ...
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... of re- search and improvement , indeed , at which his- tory is now arrived , it is impossible to make any observations , which may not have been touched upon upon by others , Does Horace give us many precepts 12 LETTER LXXVI .
... of re- search and improvement , indeed , at which his- tory is now arrived , it is impossible to make any observations , which may not have been touched upon upon by others , Does Horace give us many precepts 12 LETTER LXXVI .
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... give us many precepts , a philologist would ask , which we do not find in Aristotle ? Though my abilities may not be equal to literary contention , I cannot re- concile myself to the obscurity of mere vegeta- tion . In the lofty oak we ...
... give us many precepts , a philologist would ask , which we do not find in Aristotle ? Though my abilities may not be equal to literary contention , I cannot re- concile myself to the obscurity of mere vegeta- tion . In the lofty oak we ...
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... give people fathers and mothers , whether they will or no ; and to oblige them to acknowledge a line of relationship , which is , in every link , contra- dicted by the good old stories of their own family ; is more than can be expected ...
... give people fathers and mothers , whether they will or no ; and to oblige them to acknowledge a line of relationship , which is , in every link , contra- dicted by the good old stories of their own family ; is more than can be expected ...
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Seite 196 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Seite 196 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Seite 22 - ... people, if we compared the unrelenting revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs, who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate...
Seite 236 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Seite 317 - A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same faculties, but with a longer measure of existence, would cast down a smile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours...
Seite 308 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln : and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Seite 190 - impatient' to be on the wing, a weapon 'thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it.
Seite 148 - The ancient Icelandic mythology calls him " the author of every thing that existeth; the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful Being, the searcher into concealed things, the Being that never changeth.
Seite 130 - Ullin, Fingal's bard, was there ; the sweet voice of the hill of Cona. He praised the daughter of snow, and Morven's" high-descended chief. The daughter of snow overheard, and left the hall of her secret sigh. She came in all her beauty, like the moon from the cloud of the east. Loveliness was around her as light. Her steps were like the music of songs.
Seite 159 - In the day-spring of the ages," says the prophetess, " there was neither sea, nor shore, nor refreshing breezes. There was neither earth below, nor heaven above, to be distinguished. The whole was only one vast abyss, without herb, and without seeds. The sun had then no palace : the stars knew not their dwellingplaces, the moon was ignorant of her power.