The American Quarterly Review, Volumen4Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... possession of a valuable mass of intel- lectual knowledge . But the relation of the philosophy of the human mind to the common pursuits of life , is not obvious to any but the philosopher . Its extensive bearing on almost all the ...
... possession of a valuable mass of intel- lectual knowledge . But the relation of the philosophy of the human mind to the common pursuits of life , is not obvious to any but the philosopher . Its extensive bearing on almost all the ...
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prejudice . If we may judge from his writings , he must have possessed a mind most happily suited to this study . Formed to habits of nice investigation , and not wanting in that sensibility which would secure him from a dry and ...
prejudice . If we may judge from his writings , he must have possessed a mind most happily suited to this study . Formed to habits of nice investigation , and not wanting in that sensibility which would secure him from a dry and ...
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... possessed , an acquaintance with phenomena which a less careful observation had passed by , but which were not the less truly a part of the series . There is no mysterious agent undiscoverable by our faculties which links these phenome ...
... possessed , an acquaintance with phenomena which a less careful observation had passed by , but which were not the less truly a part of the series . There is no mysterious agent undiscoverable by our faculties which links these phenome ...
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... possession of a greater number of senses , still we should know nothing of matter or mind but their phenomena ; we should not know their essence . " Here we cannot forbear repeating , that , if there is nothing more to be known of ...
... possession of a greater number of senses , still we should know nothing of matter or mind but their phenomena ; we should not know their essence . " Here we cannot forbear repeating , that , if there is nothing more to be known of ...
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... - dence , ( since minds far wiser than our own , have been misled by these subtle inquiries , ) that , could we have been so formed , 66 as to have possessed only the organs of taste , 14 [ September , Brown's Philosophy .
... - dence , ( since minds far wiser than our own , have been misled by these subtle inquiries , ) that , could we have been so formed , 66 as to have possessed only the organs of taste , 14 [ September , Brown's Philosophy .
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Página 274 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY.
Página 274 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Página 147 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Página 273 - But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, my course be onward still.
Página 266 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Página 125 - Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Página 125 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and...
Página 147 - I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of uncleanness and cruelty not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...
Página 146 - When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn ; and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with.