A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, כרך 15Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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עמוד 89
... Epicurus . There can be no doubt , however , from the general strain and spirit of his writings , that he adhered in the main to the system of the stoics . Almost all , indeed , who were eminent for philosophic spirit of that time in ...
... Epicurus . There can be no doubt , however , from the general strain and spirit of his writings , that he adhered in the main to the system of the stoics . Almost all , indeed , who were eminent for philosophic spirit of that time in ...
עמוד 90
... Epicurus , subordinate to that of ethics ; and his whole doctrine con- cerning nature was professedly adapted to ... Epicurus , for the sake of presenting a remark or two from Aristippus , the nearest of all the ancient philosophers to ...
... Epicurus , subordinate to that of ethics ; and his whole doctrine con- cerning nature was professedly adapted to ... Epicurus , for the sake of presenting a remark or two from Aristippus , the nearest of all the ancient philosophers to ...
עמוד 91
... Epicurus . The happy life , which resembles a gentle stream , can be attained only by a prudent care of the body and steady government of the mind . The diseases of the body are to be prevented by temperance , or cured by medicine , or ...
... Epicurus . The happy life , which resembles a gentle stream , can be attained only by a prudent care of the body and steady government of the mind . The diseases of the body are to be prevented by temperance , or cured by medicine , or ...
עמוד 92
... Epicurus is for the most part very plausible ; it is all very fine ; and much of it may be profitable to men , if they can but avail themselves of its philosophic_wisdom . The reader must have perceived from it , too , how little there ...
... Epicurus is for the most part very plausible ; it is all very fine ; and much of it may be profitable to men , if they can but avail themselves of its philosophic_wisdom . The reader must have perceived from it , too , how little there ...
עמוד 93
... Epicurus is the greatest possible amount of enjoyment in this life . This happiness is the chief good ; the only object of man's supreme regard . It is the stan- dard and measure of virtue ; or rather virtue is nothing but practical ...
... Epicurus is the greatest possible amount of enjoyment in this life . This happiness is the chief good ; the only object of man's supreme regard . It is the stan- dard and measure of virtue ; or rather virtue is nothing but practical ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 112 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
עמוד 172 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
עמוד 61 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
עמוד 129 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
עמוד 38 - I pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood, With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
עמוד 107 - There is a great deal of difference between an innate law, and a law of nature between something imprinted on our minds in their very original, and something that we, being ignorant of, may attain to the knowledge of, by the use and due application of our natural faculties.
עמוד 220 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
עמוד 419 - The people, among whom you are going to live, are Mahometans. The first article of their faith is " There is no other God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet.
עמוד 136 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
עמוד 79 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...