Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart

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Blackwood, 1869 - 458 páginas
 

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Página 206 - Our life is turned Out of her course wherever man is made An offering or a sacrifice, a tool Or implement, a passive thing employed As a brute mean.
Página 435 - I assure you that without running any of the heights of scepticism, I am apt, in a cool hour, to suspect in general, that most of my reasonings will be more useful by furnishing hints and exciting people's curiosity, than as containing any principles that will augment the stock of knowledge that must pass to future ages.
Página 405 - My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. " My hopes are with the dead ; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all futurity ; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
Página 88 - took any conspicuous share or none at all in the conversation. ... In general my conclusion was, that I had rarely seen a person who manifested less of self-esteem under any of the forms by which ordinarily it reveals itself—whether of pride, or vanity, or full-blown arrogance, or heart-chilling reserve.
Página 433 - The second objection goes further, and represents this opinion as contrary to reason, at least if it be a principle of reason that all sensible qualities are in the mind, not in the object.
Página 322 - medicine and physicians. The woman with the issue of blood, for example, who had spent her substance on the doctors without any good result, 'had suffered many things of many physicians, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew
Página 438 - Pre-established Harmony, and of the vision of all things in the Deity, are only so many subsidiary hypotheses—so many attempts to bridge, by supernatural machinery, the chasm between the representation and the reality, which all human ingenuity had found, by natural means, to be insuperable. . . . The
Página 433 - an opinion, if rested on natural instinct, is contrary to reason; and if referred to reason, is contrary to natural instinct, and at the same time carries no rational evidence with it.
Página 87 - have read by proxy. Now, in that case we all know in what direction a man turns for help, and who it is that he applies to when he wishes, like Dr Faustus, to read more books than belong to his allowance in this life.
Página 10 - rub, I am sure is not worthy a place in this Club. He who leads up the van is stout Thomas * the tall, Who can make us all laugh, though he laughs at us all; But entre nous, Tom, you and I, if you please, Must take care not to laugh ourselves out of our fees.

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