Shakespeare, how true thine adage, "fair is foul!" To him whose soul is with fruition fraught, The song of Braham is an Irish howl, Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought. The Quarterly Review - Página 192editado por - 1873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 162 páginas
..." fair is foul ;" To him whose soul is with fruition fraught, The song of Braham is an Irish howl, Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and every thing is nought, IX. Sens of Parnassus ! . whom I view above, Not laurel crown'd, but clad in... | |
| 1852 - 652 páginas
...— there is no change. It negatives everything, as is well expressed in the lines of Horace Smilh : "Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought." Or in these words of the " Table far Critia" where some of his positive points are also expressed :... | |
| 1845 - 584 páginas
...existence at all, and of getting instead only a contradiction in terms — a universal nothingness. " Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought." Rejected Addresses. Dr. Elliotson, too, says that mind is only a property or power of matter, " and... | |
| James Caughey - 1847 - 376 páginas
...step." One would think you had chosen that witty couplet of a poet for your favourite motto : — " Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought." I have read of a great lawyer, who boasted that he had the art of practising three different modes... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 272 páginas
..." fair is foul ! " To him whose soul is with fruition fraught, The song of Braham is an Irish howl, Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought. a. Sons of Parnassus ! whom I view above, Not laurel-crown' d, but clad in rusty black ; ' A rather... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 páginas
..." fair is foul ! " To him whose soul is with fruition fraught, The song of Braham is an Irish howl, Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought. Sons of Parnassus ! whom I view above, Not laurel-crown'd, but clad in rusty black ; Not spurring Pegasus... | |
| 1860 - 794 páginas
...infinites, — and so ¡dtynici becomes the most metapli ysical of sciences. Verily, on this view, " Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought." The leading objection of Mr. Agassiz is likewise of a philosophical character. It is, that species... | |
| James Smith - 1860 - 460 páginas
...adage, "fair is foul!" To him whose soul is with fruition fraught, The song of Braham is an Irish howl, Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought. IX. Sons of Parnassus ! whom I view above, Not laurel-crown'd, but clad in rusty black ; Not spurring... | |
| Sir Robert Wilson - 1861 - 554 páginas
...philosophy of the authors of 'Rejected Addresses,' for which I am much obliged to Jemima, and say — " Thinking is but an idle waste of thought ; And nought is everything, and everything is nought." At Dresden I received letters from Mr. Liston to March 8. He mentions that old matters are revived... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 páginas
...— that degraded mass of animated dust — appear in " Cui Bono " with an epigrammatic conclusion : Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought. We would we had more space to quote from the "Rejected Addresses," but probably they are familiar to... | |
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