Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's sämmtliche Schriften, Volume 11, Part 1

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G. J. Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, 1857

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Page 189 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 312 - The Journal of a Two Months Tour; with a view of Promoting Religion among the Frontier Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and of Introducing Christianity among the Indians to the Westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains.
Page 166 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...
Page 165 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps At Wisdom's gate, and to Simplicity Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Page 41 - No, mistresses are like books. If you pore upon them too much, they doze you, and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by 'em.
Page 189 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Page 452 - Si parfois elle raisonne De la sublime vertu Dont Platon fut revêtu ; Car, à bien compter son âge, Elle doit avoir... vécu Avec ce grand personnage.
Page 72 - Descartes , et comment pourtant ils ont des âmes et du sentiment, selon l'opinion du genre humain ; comment il faut expliquer raisonnablement ceux qui ont donné de la vie et de la perception à toutes choses, comme Cardan, Campanella et, mieux qu'eux, feu madame la comtesse de Cannaway, platonicienne , et notre ami feu M. François-Mercure Van Helmont (quoique d'ailleurs hérissé de paradoxes inintelligibles) avec son ami feu M.
Page 97 - ... et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent, aut crucibus affixi, aut flammandi, atque ubi defecisset dies, in usum nocturni luminis urerentur.
Page 41 - tis as hard to be a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tis to be a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of money.

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