The Light of Nature Pursued, Volumen2Hilliard and Brown, 1831 |
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The Light of Nature Pursued, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) Abraham Tucker Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
abstrac action Aion Almighty animalcule appear apprehend body cerning conceive conduct continually course courses of nature creatures depend desire discern divine earth effect employed endeavors enjoyment Epicurus equal eternal ether evil exert experience fancy Fate fibres foetus free agent Freewill give hand happiness heaven human hurt ideas imagination infinite instruments of action integument judgment justice knowledge liberty light likewise Locke lying mankind manner matter ment mind mischief motions motives mundane soul nature nature of things necessary necessity never Nevertheless objects observed operation organs ourselves Ovum pains particles particular pass perceptions pericranium persons Plato pleasure present produce proper Providence punishment purpose reason receive says second causes sense sensory sentiments soever spirits substance suppose terrestrial animals Thalassian thereby thereto things thou thought tion tunicle turn understand unless Urania vehicle virtue whence wherein whereof whole wisdom
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Página 193 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Página 381 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Página 110 - Hop and Mop and Drop so clear, Pip and Trip and Skip that were To Mab, their sovereign, ever dear, Her special maids of honour ; Fib and Tib and Pink and Pin, Tick and Quick and Jill and Jin, Tit and Nit and Wap and Win, The train that wait upon her.
Página 111 - But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And softened sounds along the waters die ; Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
Página 421 - ... can cure. If those who hear not Moses and the Prophets would not believe though one rose from the dead ; neither would he that is not touched with a thousand years of severest punishment, be moved with an eternity.
Página 38 - ... support the slender shell he treads upon ? Do the magnetic effluvia course incessantly over land and sea, only to turn here and there a mariner's compass ? Are those immense bodies, the fixed stars, hung up for nothing but to twinkle in our eyes by night, or to find employment for a few astronomers ? Surely, he must have an overweening conceit of man's importance, who can imagine this stupendous frame of the universe made for him alone.
Página 111 - Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere, pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, et vera incessu patuit dea.
Página 16 - ... of family, fortune, learning, and politeness. Nor is the lowest herd incapable of that sincerest of pleasures, the consciousness of acting right, for rectitude does not consist in extensiveness 'of knowledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded...
Página 438 - He was persuaded likewise that all the good a man does, stands placed to hie account, to be repaid him in full value when it will be most useful to him : so that whoever works for another, works for himself; and by working for numbers, earns more than he could possibly do by working for himself alone. Therefore he acted like a thrifty merchant, who scruples not to advance considerable sums, and even to exhaust his coffers, for gaining a large profit to the common stock in partnership.
Página 254 - Thus, how largely soever we may ascribe to interposition, or how much soever deduct therefrom to add to the disposing Providence, we cannot deny that every natural cause we see is an effect of some prior cause, impulse of impulse, and volition of motives and ideas suggested to the mind, therefore must refer all dispensations ultimately to the act of God; and as we cannot imagine him to act without knowing what he does, and what will result therefrom, we must conclude that act to proceed upon a plan...