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... ment of many hundred thousands of columns , formed of a black rock , nearly as hard as marble . The greater part of them are pentagonal , but so closely and compactly situated on their sides , though perfectly distinct from top to ...
... ment of many hundred thousands of columns , formed of a black rock , nearly as hard as marble . The greater part of them are pentagonal , but so closely and compactly situated on their sides , though perfectly distinct from top to ...
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... ment , from a fear that such a proceeding would place their funds entirely at the disposal of government ! It is therefore highly desirable that all trifling difficulties should be swept away , if it be only with the view to lighten the ...
... ment , from a fear that such a proceeding would place their funds entirely at the disposal of government ! It is therefore highly desirable that all trifling difficulties should be swept away , if it be only with the view to lighten the ...
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... ment . If the building or purchase of the property was the act of the members when legally assembled , I opine no court of equity would hold the individuals , whose names are inserted in the deeds as trustees , to be responsible for ...
... ment . If the building or purchase of the property was the act of the members when legally assembled , I opine no court of equity would hold the individuals , whose names are inserted in the deeds as trustees , to be responsible for ...
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... ment , when certain , is more dreaded than a greater one which is uncertain . It must also be remembered that punishment may be variously adminis- tered , as by corporeal inflictions , by the restriction of liberty or of food , and by ...
... ment , when certain , is more dreaded than a greater one which is uncertain . It must also be remembered that punishment may be variously adminis- tered , as by corporeal inflictions , by the restriction of liberty or of food , and by ...
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... ment , and in 1848 this cause operated ; but another , the reaction consequent upon the excitement of 1845 , & c . ( in the Unity ) had doubtless an influence . The majority of members were either ignorant of , or indifferent to , their ...
... ment , and in 1848 this cause operated ; but another , the reaction consequent upon the excitement of 1845 , & c . ( in the Unity ) had doubtless an influence . The majority of members were either ignorant of , or indifferent to , their ...
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Page 321 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 319 - ... giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts : the one concerning manners, the other concerning business. For the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Page 320 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truths which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 319 - Dry light is ever the best," and certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment : which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Page 320 - ... hurtful and unsafe, though with good meaning, and mixed partly of mischief and partly of remedy; even as if you would call a physician that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of, but is unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in way for a present cure, but overthroweth your health in some other kind, and so cure the disease and kill the patient.
Page 320 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Page 320 - A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 350 - Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry; for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve!
Page 271 - ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise ; I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ancient days, When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.
Page 81 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.