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Nor is this great law of gradual progress confined to the physical sciences ; in the
moral it equally governs . Before the foundations of political economy were laid
by Hume and Smith , a great step had been made by the French philosophers ...
Nor is this great law of gradual progress confined to the physical sciences ; in the
moral it equally governs . Before the foundations of political economy were laid
by Hume and Smith , a great step had been made by the French philosophers ...
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The patient and unswerving searcher after physical truth was a mystic in
immaterial speculations ; the impetuous and impulsive moral reformer is never
mystical , and is not too often patient . The great discoverer of gravitation was so
entirely ...
The patient and unswerving searcher after physical truth was a mystic in
immaterial speculations ; the impetuous and impulsive moral reformer is never
mystical , and is not too often patient . The great discoverer of gravitation was so
entirely ...
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... they may in reality become the pariahs of society ; and instead of adding to the
efficient , moral , and mental strength of the nation , they constitute the weakness
of their country , and probably increase the paupers in our poorhouses , and the ...
... they may in reality become the pariahs of society ; and instead of adding to the
efficient , moral , and mental strength of the nation , they constitute the weakness
of their country , and probably increase the paupers in our poorhouses , and the ...
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... that they exercise a moral influence upon the heart of the man that cultivates
them , and hence their invaluable service in any course of instruction connected
with a Working Men ' s College , or any kind of school whatever . Some persons
in ...
... that they exercise a moral influence upon the heart of the man that cultivates
them , and hence their invaluable service in any course of instruction connected
with a Working Men ' s College , or any kind of school whatever . Some persons
in ...
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In particular reference to the moral influence of Natural History , just let me
remark , that while other subjects tend to develope our intellectual faculties to the
highest , to exercise our memory and various other faculties of the mind , Natural
...
In particular reference to the moral influence of Natural History , just let me
remark , that while other subjects tend to develope our intellectual faculties to the
highest , to exercise our memory and various other faculties of the mind , Natural
...
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Page 310 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 309 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Page 238 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 179 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but...
Page 177 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 265 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create*, And what perceive...
Page 180 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 309 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 21 - But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And withered in my hand.
Page 70 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
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| Title | The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and reader), ed. by H. Pitman, 4–6. köide |
| Editor | Henry Pitman |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 okt. 2006 |
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