BentleyMacmillan, 1882 - 224 páginas |
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... person not in Priest's Orders was eligible on that occasion , he must have gone in merely to show what he could do . The College was enabled to recognise him in other ways , however . He was appointed to the mastership of Spalding ...
... person not in Priest's Orders was eligible on that occasion , he must have gone in merely to show what he could do . The College was enabled to recognise him in other ways , however . He was appointed to the mastership of Spalding ...
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... person . The tone is often as if the ancient author was reading his composition aloud to Bent- ley , but making stupid mistakes through drowsiness or in- attention . Bentley pulls him up short ; remonstrates with him in a vein of good ...
... person . The tone is often as if the ancient author was reading his composition aloud to Bent- ley , but making stupid mistakes through drowsiness or in- attention . Bentley pulls him up short ; remonstrates with him in a vein of good ...
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... because its action is constant and uniform . But wherever there is a more and a less , wherever the op- eration is apparently variable , this is explained by the in- tervening will of an intelligent person ; it is not 30 [ CHAP . BENTLEY .
... because its action is constant and uniform . But wherever there is a more and a less , wherever the op- eration is apparently variable , this is explained by the in- tervening will of an intelligent person ; it is not 30 [ CHAP . BENTLEY .
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Richard Claverhouse Jebb. tervening will of an intelligent person ; it is not conceived that the disturbing or modifying force may be another , though unknown , " law , " in the sense in which that name is given to a manifestly regular ...
Richard Claverhouse Jebb. tervening will of an intelligent person ; it is not conceived that the disturbing or modifying force may be another , though unknown , " law , " in the sense in which that name is given to a manifestly regular ...
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... persons of Bent- ley's story . Widely read , incessantly laborious , but un- critical and vain , he poured forth a continual stream of injudicious publications , English or Greek , until , when he was fifty - one , they numbered forty ...
... persons of Bent- ley's story . Widely read , incessantly laborious , but un- critical and vain , he poured forth a continual stream of injudicious publications , English or Greek , until , when he was fifty - one , they numbered forty ...
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Página 181 - A multitude, like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 28 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers" (3d letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93).
Página 28 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Página 182 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 28 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 41 - I think he must have little skill in painting, that cannot find out this to be an original ; such diversity of passions, upon such variety of actions and passages of life and government, such freedom of thought, such boldness of expression, such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed...
Página 180 - Like night, and darkened all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires; Till, as a signal giv'n, th...
Página 41 - Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest master in his kind, and all others of that sort have been but imitations of his original ; so I think the Epistles of Phalaris to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others I have ever seen, either ancient or modern.