The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Том 9Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1817 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 100
Стр. 9
... sides , the limits of our perceptive powers . Mo- tion , for example , is often too tardy , and as often too rapid , for the cognizance of sensation . We can perceive neither the advancement of a dial - pointer , nor the circumvolution ...
... sides , the limits of our perceptive powers . Mo- tion , for example , is often too tardy , and as often too rapid , for the cognizance of sensation . We can perceive neither the advancement of a dial - pointer , nor the circumvolution ...
Стр. 20
... side of the subject . We may lament the necessity of such intellectual ' waste and misapplication ; ' but we ought to confess , at the same time , that it has been by means of these very perverted efforts to pass from the knowable into ...
... side of the subject . We may lament the necessity of such intellectual ' waste and misapplication ; ' but we ought to confess , at the same time , that it has been by means of these very perverted efforts to pass from the knowable into ...
Стр. 24
... side you will , therefore , it is inevitably destructive of all belief in a Supreme Being . -- The relation of cause and effect , as we have endeavoured to explain it , involves no such conclusions as these . It is an unquestionable ...
... side you will , therefore , it is inevitably destructive of all belief in a Supreme Being . -- The relation of cause and effect , as we have endeavoured to explain it , involves no such conclusions as these . It is an unquestionable ...
Стр. 25
... side , and fifty on another , afford a very doubtful expectation of any event ; though a hundred uniform experiments , with only one that is contra- dictory , reasonably beget a pretty strong degree of assurance . ' Now the great defect ...
... side , and fifty on another , afford a very doubtful expectation of any event ; though a hundred uniform experiments , with only one that is contra- dictory , reasonably beget a pretty strong degree of assurance . ' Now the great defect ...
Стр. 42
... side of the mountain , amid a transcendently noble combination of scenery ; and he then ascended to the summit of Parnassus , to contem- plate in one vast panorama the greatest part of all Greece . The next lofty position was the summit ...
... side of the mountain , amid a transcendently noble combination of scenery ; and he then ascended to the summit of Parnassus , to contem- plate in one vast panorama the greatest part of all Greece . The next lofty position was the summit ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
Accessus Algebra ANALECTIC appear basalt called camels captain Caracas cause character circumstances College colour common consequence considerable course disease earth Editor Edward Jenner effect England epistemia established fact feet foreign former France Franklin French gazometer give Greece hand honour human hundred idea inoculation institution island Jewitt Junius king knowledge La Guayra labour language late letter Lord manner manufactures Maquina mathematical Mazères means ment miles mind mineralogy minerals mountains nations nature never Nootkians object observations occasion original particular perhaps Pernambuco persons Philadelphia philosophical phylarch plane sailing present principles produce published quantity readers reason Recife remarks respect river Robespierre says seems side small pox soon species thing tion Tombuctoo town travelling vaccine variolous volume whole words writer Yale College
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 173 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Стр. 247 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken ; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Стр. 172 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Стр. 376 - ... consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives that at different times occur to me for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Стр. 174 - They slept on the abyss, without a surge; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave; The moon, their mistress, had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished: Darkness had no need Of aid from them — she was the universe.
Стр. 381 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.
Стр. 173 - The palaces of crowned kings - the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face. Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their...
Стр. 264 - It is worthy of particular remark, that, in general, women and children are rendered more useful, and the latter more early useful, by manufacturing establishments, than they would otherwise be.
Стр. 174 - The birds, and beasts, and famished men at bay, Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws ; himself sought out no food, But, with a piteous and perpetual moan And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand, Which answered not with a caress — he died.
Стр. 381 - Divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and...