Viator: Or, A Peep Into My Note BookPlaskitt & Cugle, 1841 - 355 pages |
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... they are extremely apt to seduce the mind from the more solid matter , and to content the butterfly- lookers into books , with knowledge gained picto- rially , and without mental exertion , rather than with 2 * ADDRESS TO MY READERS . 13.
... they are extremely apt to seduce the mind from the more solid matter , and to content the butterfly- lookers into books , with knowledge gained picto- rially , and without mental exertion , rather than with 2 * ADDRESS TO MY READERS . 13.
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... knowledge of facts and opinions in for- gotten literature and science , that otherwise might never have reached them ! Be this as it may , I shall complete my series , in my own way , both as to matter and manner , justly hoping , but ...
... knowledge of facts and opinions in for- gotten literature and science , that otherwise might never have reached them ! Be this as it may , I shall complete my series , in my own way , both as to matter and manner , justly hoping , but ...
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... they are imparted . Nothing , now - a - days , can render sound knowledge and sober morals even endurable , unless fiction and fun be more than prominent- and , doubtless , even all history , metaphysics , 22 ADDRESS TO MY READERS .
... they are imparted . Nothing , now - a - days , can render sound knowledge and sober morals even endurable , unless fiction and fun be more than prominent- and , doubtless , even all history , metaphysics , 22 ADDRESS TO MY READERS .
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... knowledge , which has super- seded , or newly fashioned that of preceding times ; and , in looking through the long vista of time , there is nothing in man's history that more forcibly shows the uncertainty of his attainments , and the ...
... knowledge , which has super- seded , or newly fashioned that of preceding times ; and , in looking through the long vista of time , there is nothing in man's history that more forcibly shows the uncertainty of his attainments , and the ...
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... knowledge of Aristotle , the vortices of Descartes , the learning of the astrologists , the deep researches of the alchemists , the experiments of the phlogistians , and the innumerable other devices of human invention , and of supposed ...
... knowledge of Aristotle , the vortices of Descartes , the learning of the astrologists , the deep researches of the alchemists , the experiments of the phlogistians , and the innumerable other devices of human invention , and of supposed ...
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Page 169 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 176 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 308 - After his first plunge into the sea, he no sooner raised his head above the water but he found himself standing by the side of the tub, with the great men of his court about him, and the holy man at his side.
Page 257 - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Page 352 - REMORSE is as the heart in which it grows : If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, It is a poison-tree, that pierced to the inmost Weeps only tears of poison ! Alv.
Page 226 - The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 146 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 269 - True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy...
Page 275 - Our life is two-fold : Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy...
Page 307 - Gabriel carried him away, before the water was all spilt.* There is a very pretty story in the Turkish tales, which relates to this passage of that famous impostor, and bears some affinity to the subject we are now upon. A sultan of Egypt, who was an infidel, used to laugh at this circumstance in Mahomet's life, as what was altogether impossible and absurd; but conversing one day with a great doctor in the law, who had the gift of working miracles, the doctor told him he would quickly convince him...