 | Robert Leighton - 1806 - 472 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising, that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least, to visit themselves sometimes;...The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth." It is the peculiar property of the human mind, and its signal -privilege, to reflect upon itself; yet... | |
 | 1928 - 872 pages
...Eeally it was the right course to take, however you look at it. Need one add that it was not taken ! The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth. King Philip III. and his favourites, Lerma the father, who outstayed his welcome, and Uceda his son,... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1819 - 496 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising, that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least, to visit themselves sometimes...the wise Solomon, " The eyes of the fool are in the earth." It is the peculiar property of the human mind, and its signal privilege, to reflect upon itself;... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...most, but of those who do most.' PBOV. xvii. 24. Wisdom is before him that hath understanding : But the eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth. An understanding tnind is not in want of objects to contemplate. It can discern and read wisdom in... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 500 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising, that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least, to visit themselves sometimes...The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth." It is the peculiar property of the human mind, and its signal privilege, to reflect upon itself; yet... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 452 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least to visit themselves sometimes;...The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth. It is the peculiar property of the human mind, and its signal privilege, to reflect upon itself; yet... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 462 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least to visit themselves sometimes...The eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth. It is the peculiar property of the human mind, and its signal privilege, to reflect upon itself; yet... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1828 - 302 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon at least to visit themselves sometimes...the eyes of the fool are in the ends of the earth. It is the peculiar property of the human mind and its signal privilege, to reflect upon itself; yet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 610 pages
...though there are very few that do this, yet it * J3 surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be " ' prevailed upon, at least to visit themselves...writer, is the spring and source of every good thing. (l Omnis front principium intellectus cogitabundus.'1 ) It is at once the disgrace and the misery of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 484 pages
...there are very few that do this, yet it 'is surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be 1 ' prevailed upon, at least to visit themselves sometimes...'according to the saying of the wise Solomon, The eyes of 1 the fool are in the ends of the earth? A reflecting mind, says an aneient writer, is the spring and... | |
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or, with yourself; and though there are very few that do this, yet it is surprising that the greatest part of mankind cannot be prevailed upon, at least to visit themselves sometimes ; but, according to the saying of the wise Solomon, The eyes of the... 
