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Стр. vii
... contemplate and apprehend , that , like the medium through which visible things pass , their obscurity and disorder do not seldom cast a mist before our eyes , and impose on our understanding . " * Similarly , John Stuart Mill A 4.
... contemplate and apprehend , that , like the medium through which visible things pass , their obscurity and disorder do not seldom cast a mist before our eyes , and impose on our understanding . " * Similarly , John Stuart Mill A 4.
Стр. ix
... thing is nominated or designed , and which may be called the primary case ; all others being formed from it by alterations of the termination in the learned languages , and by prepositions in our modern Babylonian jargons . " Chap . 5 ...
... thing is nominated or designed , and which may be called the primary case ; all others being formed from it by alterations of the termination in the learned languages , and by prepositions in our modern Babylonian jargons . " Chap . 5 ...
Стр. xi
... thing wanting to make the third book of Locke's Essay a nearly perfect treatise on the connotation of names , except to free its language from the assumption of what are called Abstract Ideas , which unfortunately is involved in the ...
... thing wanting to make the third book of Locke's Essay a nearly perfect treatise on the connotation of names , except to free its language from the assumption of what are called Abstract Ideas , which unfortunately is involved in the ...
Стр. xiv
... thing like adequate extent . 6 Wallis , Brightland , Priestley , and Lowth , are the fathers of our gram- matical literature . During twenty years from the publication of Lowth's ' Introduction , ' several works on English Grammar made ...
... thing like adequate extent . 6 Wallis , Brightland , Priestley , and Lowth , are the fathers of our gram- matical literature . During twenty years from the publication of Lowth's ' Introduction , ' several works on English Grammar made ...
Стр. xvi
... thing beyond amusement ; for most of them rather disguise than explain the difficulties of the subject , and incur ... things which ingenuity has devised . The difficulty of educating cannot be overcome by merely making Each weary ...
... thing beyond amusement ; for most of them rather disguise than explain the difficulties of the subject , and incur ... things which ingenuity has devised . The difficulty of educating cannot be overcome by merely making Each weary ...
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Стр. 69 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Стр. 143 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus ; for he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
Стр. 140 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 157 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Стр. 130 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill encompassed round, A most enchanting Wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found.
Стр. 169 - Harley had drawn a shilling from his pocket ; but Virtue bade him consider on whom he was going to bestow it.— Virtue held back his arm ; but a milder form, a younger sister of Virtue's, not so severe as Virtue, nor so serious as Pity, smiled upon him : his fingers lost their compression...
Стр. 162 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Стр. 131 - Rise on the Earth, or Earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid: Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
Стр. 154 - Shakespeare, whether life or nature be his subject, shows plainly that he has seen with his own eyes ; he gives the image which he receives, not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind; the ignorant feel his representations to be just, and the learned see that they are complete.
Стр. 137 - Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever.