The Horoscope: A Monthly Magazine of Interesting and Instructive Science and Literature, Том 1Published monthly for the proprietors by William Charlton Wright, 4, Paternoster Row, 1841 |
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Страница 64 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Страница 94 - twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever.
Страница 167 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Страница 224 - ... as to the cause of the late fire, or whether there might be any design therein. You are called the rather hither, because in a book of yours long since printed, you hinted some such thing by one of your hieroglyphicks.
Страница 14 - ... asserting the Deity, suppose it irrespectively to decree and determine all things, and thereby make all actions necessary to us ; which kind of Fate, though philosophers and other ancient writers have not been altogether silent of it, yet it has been principally maintained by some neoteric Christians, contrary to the sense of the ancient church.
Страница 30 - is to inspire the love of truth, of wisdom, of beauty, especially of goodness, the highest beauty, and of that supreme and eternal Mind, which contains all truth and wisdom, all beauty and goodness.
Страница 59 - ... seems to be a thing very questionable, and has therefore caused much dispute amongst his interpreters ; it being resolved by many of them to be the Divine intellect, and commonly by others, a foreign thing. Whence it must needs be left doubtful, whether he acknowledged any thing incorporeal and immortal at all in us.
Страница 213 - London," he returned thither, and began assiduously to labour in his vocation. He soon became known, more especially as he did not content himself with practising the arts of prophesying and magic in private, but also published a work, termed Merlin the Younger, which he continued subsequently to issue as a periodical almanack. This arrested the attention of men very speedily, and his fame became universal. One of his trumpery bundles of periodical prophecies attracted the anxious attention of Parliament,...
Страница 94 - How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.
Страница 224 - God had given me, to make enquiry by the art I studied, what might from that time happen unto the Parliament and nation in general. At last, having satisfied myself as well as I could, and perfected my judgment therein, I thought it most convenient to signify my intentions and conceptions thereof, in Forms, Shapes, Types, Hieroglyphicks, &c.