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Mental Culture, Or the Means of Developing the Human Faculties (Classic Reprint) J. L. Levison Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |
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Side 65 - An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread Beyond itself, communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil mixed ; Spirit...
Side 241 - This is neither like myself, nor any body else ! where are my legs ? how do you know it to be I ?" and then, without stopping for any attempt at an explanation, he impatiently ordered Mr. Mariner to write something else, and thus employed him for three or four hours in putting down the names of different persons, places, and things, and making the other man read them.
Side 70 - These grateful stings of laughter, from disgust Educing pleasure? Wherefore, but to aid The tardy steps of reason, and at once By this prompt impulse urge us to depress The giddy aims of folly ? Though the light Of truth slow dawning on the inquiring mind At length unfolds, through...
Side 241 - Mr. Mariner to turn his back and look another way, he gave the man the paper and desired him to tell what that was ; he accordingly pronounced aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper...
Side 241 - ... what that was: he accordingly pronounced aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper from his hand, and, with astonishment, looked at it, turned it round, and examined it in all directions: at length he exclaimed, "This is neither like myself nor any body else!
Side 241 - This mode of communicating sentiments was an inexplicable puzzle to Finow. He took the letter again and examined it, but it afforded him no information. He considered the .matter a little within himself, but his thoughts reflected no light upon the subject. At length he sent for Mr. Mariner, and desired him to write down something. 5. The latter asked what he would choose to have written. He replied, put down me. He accordingly wrote "Fee-now" (spelling it according to the strict English orthography).
Side 244 - ... all the mechanical powers, which the French Government had sent over as a present, they considered to be meant as toys for the amusement of the grandchildren of the Emperor. And I have heard the late Sir George Staunton declare, that the costly mathematical instruments made by Ramsden and Dollond, and taken to Pekin by Lord Macartney, were as utterly useless to the Chinese, as a steam-engine to an Esquimaux, or a loom to a Hottentot. The father of Montaigne, not inaptly to my present subject,...
Side 62 - May 1835, at Dublin, and met her fate with all the calm resignation of a Christian, conscious that her spirit was winging its flight to another and a better world, where ' the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.
Side 70 - Strikes on the quick observer: whether pomp, Or praise, or beauty, mix their partial claim Where sordid fashions, where ignoble deeds, Where foul deformity, are wont to dwell ; Or whether these with...
Side 241 - Feenow," spelling it after the strict English orthography. The chief then sent for another Englishman who had not been present, and commanded Mr. Mariner to turn his back and look another way ; he gave the man the paper, and desired him to tell...