| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...may go wrong. Sec then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature, which arc two in ours ; elf, so cautious and so Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their jKjison, and to choose their food ! Prescient,... | |
| Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 pages
...soon as they see it ; while the young of the gallinaceous hen can not be driven into water at all. "And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs; in that 'tis man." — Pope. Fishes have the following characteristics : they have a body with a vertebral column, covered... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 418 pages
...felicity : — " See then the acting and comparing powers, One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God that acts, in that 'tis Man." Essay, Ep. iii. Addison, in his 120th Spectator, after giving many instances... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 420 pages
...felicity : — " See then the acting and comparing powers, One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God that acts, in that 'tis Man." Essay, Ep. iii. Addison, in his 120th Spectator, after giving many instances... | |
| William Paley - 1839 - 418 pages
...felicity : — " See then the acting and comparing powers, One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God that acts, in that 'tis Man." Essay, Ep. iii. Adclison, in his 120th Spectator, after giving many instances... | |
| Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...cause ,/i'rm/,y." represent the latter of the antecedent terms, and that or those, the former : as, " And, reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man." — Pope. " Farewell my friends ! farewell my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those!" —... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1842 - 250 pages
...of improvement; unerring in its nature, wherever seen, you are compelled to exclaim with the poet, "And Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man." Finally — contemplating instinct in connection with intelligence and reason, you will observe that... | |
| Observations - 1842 - 54 pages
...afterwards prove, it is the invisible vital agent that does all that is done in the animal frame. " And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man." 16 We may add, that a nervous system is not essential to the existence of life, for it exists in every... | |
| 1842 - 1124 pages
...pnmper'd goose. And just as short of reason he must fall Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this, 'tis God directs, and that 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison and to choose... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...may go wrong. See then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature, which are two in ours ! e benefit embrace Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food I Prescient,... | |
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