 ... of wise and pithy saws which, to the number of between four and five thousand, were collected from all ancient literature by the industry of Erasmus in his great folio of Adages. As we turn over these pages of old time, we almost feel that those are...  Religious Characteristics - Página 79por Thomas Aird - 1827 - 303 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1828 - 498 páginas
...of the French Revolution, these are not the prevalent errors, and men are more disposed to conclude, that " The thing that has been is the thing that shall be.'" Note B. Page 8. . All the dreams of the darkest and rudest ages have their counterparts, and even their... | |
 | 1868 - 978 páginas
...of farther ingenuity, aspiring to the planets of night, and settling their laws of motion, grows ш consciousness of strength almost absolute and independent...once trammel the sun and the sun-pursuing stars."* Such a style of thought is not only profane — for that the positivial may fairly regard as an accusation... | |
 | 1900 - 708 páginas
...school is exalted above the needs of the children, and where teachers are content to rest in the belief that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, — that there is no new thing under the sun. But until we know how to make our schools minister in... | |
 | John Morley - 1887 - 72 páginas
...these pages of old time, we almost feel that those are right who tell us that everything has been said, that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. Even so, we are happily not bound to Schopenhauer's gloomy... | |
 | American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes - 1914 - 460 páginas
...rumors of war, and in fact universal peace would lay half of the diplomats of the world on the shelf. That the thing that has been is the thing that shall be is therefore taken as an assured fact. But aside from the inertia of the existing order of things,... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 252 páginas
...pages of old time, we almost feel that those are right who tell us that everything has been said ; that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, and that there is no new thing under the sun. Even so, we are happily not bound to Schopenhauer's gloomy... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 254 páginas
...pages of old time, we almost feel that those are right who tell us that everything has been said ; that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, and that there is no new thing under the sun. Even so, we are happily not bound to Schopenhauer's gloomy... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 322 páginas
...pages of old time, we almost feel that those are right who tell us that everything has been said ; that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, and that there is no new thing under the sun. Even so, we are happily not bound to Schopenhauer's gloomy... | |
 | Portsmouth (England). City Council - 1928 - 364 páginas
...opening a lunatic asylum with rejoicing, but the Mayor, realizing the profound wisdom of the declaration that " the thing that has been is the thing that shall be," gave a feast and invited 250 guests to bear him company when, on September 30th, the great building... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 páginas
...pages of old times, we almost feel that those are right who tell us that everything has been said, that the thing that has been is the thing that shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. It is natural that this second kind of wisdom, being detached... | |
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