Truth and Error: Or, The Science of IntellectionOpen court publishing Company, 1898 - 428 pages |
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Page 351 - Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass ; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak '. 'Sblood ! do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 351 - Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 412 - Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. 'Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept...
Page 359 - The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, continues in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forwards in a right line.
Page 401 - ... and if he were demanded, what is it that solidity and extension inhere in, he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned who, saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked what the elephant rested on ; to which his answer was, a great tortoise : but being again pressed to know what gave...
Page 401 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such finalities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us, which qualities are commonly called accidents.