A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3J. and H. L. Hunt, 1824 - Philosophy |
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... mind of the duke de la Ferté , who , to flatter the taste of the abbé Servien , said to him one day , “ Ah , if you had seen my son , who died at fifteen years of age ! What eyes ! what freshness of com- plexion ! what an admirable ...
... mind of the duke de la Ferté , who , to flatter the taste of the abbé Servien , said to him one day , “ Ah , if you had seen my son , who died at fifteen years of age ! What eyes ! what freshness of com- plexion ! what an admirable ...
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... mind for them . Boileau has given the portrait of a director , in his Satire on Woman , but might have said something much more to the purpose . * DISPUTES . THERE have been disputes at all times , on all sub- jects : " Mundum tradidit ...
... mind for them . Boileau has given the portrait of a director , in his Satire on Woman , but might have said something much more to the purpose . * DISPUTES . THERE have been disputes at all times , on all sub- jects : " Mundum tradidit ...
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... mind is like the squinting eye : How can you make it see itself awry ? Who's in the wrong ? Will any answer , " I " ? Our words , our efforts , are an idle breath ; Each hugs his darling notion until death ; Opinions ne'er are altered ...
... mind is like the squinting eye : How can you make it see itself awry ? Who's in the wrong ? Will any answer , " I " ? Our words , our efforts , are an idle breath ; Each hugs his darling notion until death ; Opinions ne'er are altered ...
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... size . How does my mind thus contradict the mechanism of my organs ? The object is really a degree smaller to my eyes , and yet I see it the same . It is in vain that we attempt to explain this mystery , by the route c 2 DISTANCE . 15.
... size . How does my mind thus contradict the mechanism of my organs ? The object is really a degree smaller to my eyes , and yet I see it the same . It is in vain that we attempt to explain this mystery , by the route c 2 DISTANCE . 15.
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... mind does not consider , that if this part were to be painted at the bottom of the eye , it could collect nothing ... minds , imagined that he could give sight to this blind man by couching , and proposed the operation . The patient was ...
... mind does not consider , that if this part were to be painted at the bottom of the eye , it could collect nothing ... minds , imagined that he could give sight to this blind man by couching , and proposed the operation . The patient was ...
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Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 280 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 47 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day...
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Page 89 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Page 293 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 311 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Page 145 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 274 - The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.