Philosophical Miscellanies on Various Subjects: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Author, and His Works, by Himself |
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... , and entertain diftant Hopes . I , from my Soul , fubmit to the Difpenfations of Providence , ever wife and gracious ; and fhall now enter on a Detail , which , L in the principal Particulars of my Life , will remind A 2 in.
... , and entertain diftant Hopes . I , from my Soul , fubmit to the Difpenfations of Providence , ever wife and gracious ; and fhall now enter on a Detail , which , L in the principal Particulars of my Life , will remind A 2 in.
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... Soul and that of the Body On the Principles of Happiness and Un- bapiness in Marriage On Moral Liberty Differtation , from the Principles of the Law of Nature , on lending Money at Intereft - The Obligation of procuring ourselves the ...
... Soul and that of the Body On the Principles of Happiness and Un- bapiness in Marriage On Moral Liberty Differtation , from the Principles of the Law of Nature , on lending Money at Intereft - The Obligation of procuring ourselves the ...
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... Soul , which are highly interesting , and very well deferving a phi- lofophical Enquiry . We fhall now treat of the State of the Body , referving that of the Soul for the Subject of the Effay fol- lowing . Two Things conftitute the ...
... Soul , which are highly interesting , and very well deferving a phi- lofophical Enquiry . We fhall now treat of the State of the Body , referving that of the Soul for the Subject of the Effay fol- lowing . Two Things conftitute the ...
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... Soul but a little before de- rived from their Action . If , when a Per- fon is writing , Sleep comes upon him , his ftretched Fingers imperceptibly relax ; the Muscles of the Wrift , from being hard and tenfe , become flaccid ; the Pen ...
... Soul but a little before de- rived from their Action . If , when a Per- fon is writing , Sleep comes upon him , his ftretched Fingers imperceptibly relax ; the Muscles of the Wrift , from being hard and tenfe , become flaccid ; the Pen ...
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... Soul and Body ; and this is that foft Substance contained in the offeous Re- pofitory of the Cranium , and which is di- vided into two Parts , the Brain and the Cerebellum , or hinder Part of the Brain . Sleep , I fay , is the temporary ...
... Soul and Body ; and this is that foft Substance contained in the offeous Re- pofitory of the Cranium , and which is di- vided into two Parts , the Brain and the Cerebellum , or hinder Part of the Brain . Sleep , I fay , is the temporary ...
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Page 175 - Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Page 104 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 147 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 111 - That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us than there are of sensible and material below us, is probable to me from hence, that in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps.
Page 47 - Macbeth does murder sleep — the innocent sleep — Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Page 111 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other. There are fishes that have wings, and are not strangers to the airy...
Page 109 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; "For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; "For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; "Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; "My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 120 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit...
Page 158 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love; Where Friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem enlivened by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence: for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
Page 37 - But safe repose, without an air of breath, Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to death. An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, Arising upwards from the rock below, The palace moats, and o'er the pebbles creeps, And with soft murmurs calls the coming Sleeps...