The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 14; Volume 77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 - American literature |
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... believe on authority that the sea is the sweat of the earth , that the serpent , before the Fall , went erect like man , or that the right eye of a hedge - hog , boiled in oil , and preserved in a brazen vessel , will enable us to see ...
... believe on authority that the sea is the sweat of the earth , that the serpent , before the Fall , went erect like man , or that the right eye of a hedge - hog , boiled in oil , and preserved in a brazen vessel , will enable us to see ...
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... believe that they could enter the world in such a fash- ion . Having carefully summed up this negative evidence - enough , one would have fancied , to blow the poor phoenix into summary annihilation - Sir Thomas finally announces his ...
... believe that they could enter the world in such a fash- ion . Having carefully summed up this negative evidence - enough , one would have fancied , to blow the poor phoenix into summary annihilation - Sir Thomas finally announces his ...
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... believe that this fear , if it be founded upon the theory of the moral sense , as set forth in the " Descent of Man , " is a groundless one ; and the object of the present essay is to attempt to show- Firstly That the nobility of our ...
... believe that this fear , if it be founded upon the theory of the moral sense , as set forth in the " Descent of Man , " is a groundless one ; and the object of the present essay is to attempt to show- Firstly That the nobility of our ...
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... believe , involved in the sup- position that " evolution by law , " whether organic or inorganic , can dispense with the necessity of a present overruling Cre- ator . The watch , when it leaves the hand of the man who made it , is ...
... believe , involved in the sup- position that " evolution by law , " whether organic or inorganic , can dispense with the necessity of a present overruling Cre- ator . The watch , when it leaves the hand of the man who made it , is ...
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... believe that our conception of the Deity , and our capability of discerning Him , though but faint and weak , yet infinitely transcend any like powers in a poor ignorant savage , so may we hold fast without wavering to that power , even ...
... believe that our conception of the Deity , and our capability of discerning Him , though but faint and weak , yet infinitely transcend any like powers in a poor ignorant savage , so may we hold fast without wavering to that power , even ...
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Page 30 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 330 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 76 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 78 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 25 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 19 - All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Page 22 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast...
Page 85 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 225 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Page 176 - There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there...