The Young Man's Book of Knowledge: Containing a Familiar View of the Importance of Religion, the Works of Nature, Logic, Eloquence ...the editor, 1827 - 348 |
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Strona 15 - King, who still thought it a hard thing (as in truth it was) to proceed so severely in such cases : so he set his hand to the warrant, with tears in his eyes, saying to Cranmer, That if he did wrong, since it was in submission to his authority, he should answer for it to God.
Strona 123 - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
Strona 137 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Strona 137 - In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.
Strona 191 - We do not, however, pretend, that all subjects men may have occasion to inquire into, can be expressed by lines. There are many not reducible to any such rule : thus, the knowledge of an infinitely powerful, infinitely just God, on whom all things depend, and who would have all his creatures execute his orders, to become capable of being happy, is the principle of all morality, from which a thousand undeniable consequences may be drawn, and yet neither the principle nor the consequences can be expressed...
Strona 119 - Lord is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said it? and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken it? and shall he not make it good?
Strona 83 - ... an animal to the situations of life, we observe, with great satisfaction, that man is accordingly made of such systems, and for such purposes. He has them all ; and he has nothing more, except the organs of respiration. Breathing it seemed difficult to account for a priori : we only know it to be a fact, essentially necessary to life.
Strona 119 - Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing, full. " If you wish to enrich a person, study not to increase his stores, but to diminish his desires." " If you regulate your desires according to the standard of nature, you will never be poor ; if according to the standard of opinion, you will never be rich.
Strona 231 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Strona 119 - Climax is a beautiful kind of repetition, when the word, which ends the first member of a period begins the second, and so through each member, till the whole is finished. There is a great deal of strength as well as beauty in this figure, where the several steps rise naturally, and are closely connected.