The Doctrine of Changes as Applicable Both to the Institutions of Social Life and to the Progressive Order of NatureThomas Clark, 1844 - 520 páginas |
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... political distinction - they were at least forced to hide their ill - will amidst the general burst of loyalty that was heard every where around them ; - multitudes of armed citizens covered the entire face of the country , burning with ...
... political distinction - they were at least forced to hide their ill - will amidst the general burst of loyalty that was heard every where around them ; - multitudes of armed citizens covered the entire face of the country , burning with ...
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... political life to another ? -Where are now the mighty king- doms of the Assyrians — the Egyptians — the Greeks -the Macedonians - or the Romans ? -were they less likely to have endured - or less firmly believed by their cotemporaries to ...
... political life to another ? -Where are now the mighty king- doms of the Assyrians — the Egyptians — the Greeks -the Macedonians - or the Romans ? -were they less likely to have endured - or less firmly believed by their cotemporaries to ...
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... political life by which they have been succeeded - and is not the most obvious lesson which we learn from all past his- tory , and all comprehensive reflection on human affairs , that the noblest works of man , equally with his most ...
... political life by which they have been succeeded - and is not the most obvious lesson which we learn from all past his- tory , and all comprehensive reflection on human affairs , that the noblest works of man , equally with his most ...
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... political regulation , will either be greatly divested of its evil - or be modified into a condition more suited to the genius and to the wants of the community.— So true is it , that the great thing to be aimed at , in all conditions ...
... political regulation , will either be greatly divested of its evil - or be modified into a condition more suited to the genius and to the wants of the community.— So true is it , that the great thing to be aimed at , in all conditions ...
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... political associations are the subjects of contem- plation - it thickens into more impenetrable dark- ness when the connection of the different nations that cover the face of the earth becomes the sub- ject of study - for then the ...
... political associations are the subjects of contem- plation - it thickens into more impenetrable dark- ness when the connection of the different nations that cover the face of the earth becomes the sub- ject of study - for then the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 520 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 520 - ... So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
Página 520 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach...
Página 103 - The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities; the one Antiquity, the other Novelty : wherein it seemeth the children of time do take after the nature and malice of the father. For as he devoureth his children, so one of them seeketh to devour and suppress the other ; while antiquity envieth there should be new additions, and novelty cannot be content to add but it must deface.
Página 277 - ... that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass that mean and small things discover great better than great can discover the small; and therefore Aristotle noteth well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in his smallest portions...
Página 520 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 303 - The successful results of our experiments and reasonings in natural philosophy, and the incalculable advantages which experience, systematically consulted and dispassionately 'reasoned on, has conferred in matters purely physical, tend of necessity to impress something of the well weighed and progressive character of science on the more complicated conduct of our social and moral relations. It is thus that legislation and politics become gradually regarded as experimental...
Página 38 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and shall break^ in blessings on your head.
Página 505 - By virtue of this life the great masses are held together in their orderly courses, as well as the minutest particles governed in their natural motions, according to the several laws of attraction, gravity, electricity, magnetism, and the rest. It is this gives instinct, teaches the spider her web, and the bee her honey.
Página 300 - ... and more effectually developed in their consequences, and receive that ductility and plastic quality which the pressure of minds of all descriptions, constantly moulding them to their purposes, can alone bestow. But to this end it is necessary that it should be divested, as far as possible, of artificial difficulties, and stripped of all such technicalities as tend to place it in the light of a craft and a mystery, inaccessible without a kind of apprenticeship.