The Advancement of Society in Knowledge and ReligionAdam Black; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London, 1828 - 383 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... invention of arts among the descendants of Cain , and the long life of the antediluvians , so favourable to the cultivation of science , great advances would be made , and com- manding heights of knowledge would be reached , by men ...
... invention of arts among the descendants of Cain , and the long life of the antediluvians , so favourable to the cultivation of science , great advances would be made , and com- manding heights of knowledge would be reached , by men ...
Pàgina 16
... invention ; and the claim of each may be allowed . Their com- mon nature and common origin sufficiently ac- count for coincidences which have too hastily been judged certain marks of imitation . Yet if the ques- tion were still urged ...
... invention ; and the claim of each may be allowed . Their com- mon nature and common origin sufficiently ac- count for coincidences which have too hastily been judged certain marks of imitation . Yet if the ques- tion were still urged ...
Pàgina 17
... inventor of tillage , and the be- stower of corn . It is there also that men , from the nature of the country , must first have lived in towns , crowded upon the few elevated spots which were superior to the inundation of the Nile , and ...
... inventor of tillage , and the be- stower of corn . It is there also that men , from the nature of the country , must first have lived in towns , crowded upon the few elevated spots which were superior to the inundation of the Nile , and ...
Pàgina 18
... that the monuments of Egypt alone are covered with hieroglyphics , which carry them back to an age , and a literature anterior to the invention of alphabetic characters . Ancient commerce was founded upon the riches of India , and 18.
... that the monuments of Egypt alone are covered with hieroglyphics , which carry them back to an age , and a literature anterior to the invention of alphabetic characters . Ancient commerce was founded upon the riches of India , and 18.
Pàgina 22
... invention of let- ters , and in the absence of other records , was in- tended to keep the name of the erector , and to per- petuate his memory . The ancient method of war , as it swept along with it the wealth and the popu- lation of ...
... invention of let- ters , and in the absence of other records , was in- tended to keep the name of the erector , and to per- petuate his memory . The ancient method of war , as it swept along with it the wealth and the popu- lation of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 255 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving y them be, but life from the dead?
Pàgina 197 - In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too, some other use.
Pàgina 94 - In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, — or are circumferred to nature, — or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine philosophy, Natural philosophy, and Human philosophy or Humanity.
Pàgina 296 - Come, therefore, O thou that hast the seven stars in thy right hand, appoint thy chosen priests according to their orders and courses of old, to minister before thee, and duly to press and pour out the consecrated oil into thy holy and everburning lamps. Thou hast sent out the spirit of prayer upon thy servants over all the land to this effect, and stirred up their vows as the sound of many waters about thy throne.
Pàgina 256 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Pàgina 96 - Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned, is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or philosophia prima: which cannot but cease and stop all progression. For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level: neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
Pàgina 290 - For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother cities, but such as I mistake if when they come of age they do not wean themselves; which causes me to wonder at princes that delight to be exhausted in that way.
Pàgina 93 - Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia, the receptacle for all such profitable observations, and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common, and of a higher stage.
Pàgina 297 - Come forth out of thy royal chambers, O Prince of all the kings of the earth, put on the visible robes of thy imperial majesty, take up that unlimited scepter which thy almighty Father hath bequeathed thee; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee, and all creatures sigh to be renewed.
Pàgina 297 - O perfect and accomplish thy glorious acts ! for men may leave their works unfinished, but thou art a God, thy nature is perfection...