The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 14; Volume 77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 - American literature |
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endured ; and the missionaries complain of the damage done to their cause by the dis- solute lives of the Portuguese merchants , especially by their carrying away girls for the harems of Goa and Macao . We must pass over the history of ...
endured ; and the missionaries complain of the damage done to their cause by the dis- solute lives of the Portuguese merchants , especially by their carrying away girls for the harems of Goa and Macao . We must pass over the history of ...
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... cause . The conquest of the Philippine Islands by the Spaniards , which was powerfully aided by the preach- ing of the Jesuits and Franciscans , and by the forced conversion of the natives , filled the minds of the Japanese with alarm ...
... cause . The conquest of the Philippine Islands by the Spaniards , which was powerfully aided by the preach- ing of the Jesuits and Franciscans , and by the forced conversion of the natives , filled the minds of the Japanese with alarm ...
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... cause - i . e . the man working through laws ; but it still remains governed by its more general cause - i . e . the laws by means of which its formation was rendered possible ; which laws exist independently of the scends intuition and ...
... cause - i . e . the man working through laws ; but it still remains governed by its more general cause - i . e . the laws by means of which its formation was rendered possible ; which laws exist independently of the scends intuition and ...
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... cause us to doubt that the higher and nobler minds amongst us do , through the working of natural laws , receive more knowledge of a higher Power than the mass of mankind . This we call " Reve- lation , " receiving it through poet ...
... cause us to doubt that the higher and nobler minds amongst us do , through the working of natural laws , receive more knowledge of a higher Power than the mass of mankind . This we call " Reve- lation , " receiving it through poet ...
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... cause and not the consequence of organization , the changes in , and develop- ment of , an organism would seem to be the consequence of various internal and exter- nal conditions acting upon that vitality by which alone the organism ...
... cause and not the consequence of organization , the changes in , and develop- ment of , an organism would seem to be the consequence of various internal and exter- nal conditions acting upon that vitality by which alone the organism ...
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Page 30 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 330 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 76 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 78 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 25 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 19 - All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Page 22 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast...
Page 85 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 225 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Page 176 - There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there...