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... natural philosophy as it was for the meta- physical philosophy of the older time , for Bacon's apho- rism had been more than once anticipated in the early days of Christianity , notably by St. Augustine , and it would not be hard to ...
... natural philosophy as it was for the meta- physical philosophy of the older time , for Bacon's apho- rism had been more than once anticipated in the early days of Christianity , notably by St. Augustine , and it would not be hard to ...
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... nature , the influence of free will , and teaching us that all living beings depend on one ever - acting Creator and Ruler . " Once when particularly disgusted with the material- istic views of those who , while denying the existence of ...
... nature , the influence of free will , and teaching us that all living beings depend on one ever - acting Creator and Ruler . " Once when particularly disgusted with the material- istic views of those who , while denying the existence of ...
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... nature , the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator . I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory . " Kepler , the great astronomer to whom we owe so many significant basic discoveries , once said : " The day is near ...
... nature , the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator . I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory . " Kepler , the great astronomer to whom we owe so many significant basic discoveries , once said : " The day is near ...
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... natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for the last forty years of the nineteenth century , and who was the co - author with Lord Kelvin of Thomson's and Tait's " Natural Phi- losophy " ( the well - known T + T ) summed up the ...
... natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for the last forty years of the nineteenth century , and who was the co - author with Lord Kelvin of Thomson's and Tait's " Natural Phi- losophy " ( the well - known T + T ) summed up the ...
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... Nature evidences a Designing Mind ? " Lord Rayleigh , the physicist and mathematician , professor of experimental physics at Cambridge and then Tyndall's successor as professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution , who ...
... Nature evidences a Designing Mind ? " Lord Rayleigh , the physicist and mathematician , professor of experimental physics at Cambridge and then Tyndall's successor as professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution , who ...
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Page 289 - ... tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 167 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 289 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 236 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 237 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 289 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 305 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 166 - AUSTERITY OF POETRY. That son of Italy who tried to blow ', Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song, In his light youth amid a festal throng Sate with his bride to see a public show. Fair was the bride, and on her front did glow Youth like a star ; and what to youth belong — Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 1 Giacoponc di Todi.
Page 28 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 151 - ... so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.