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... as such , be self - defence , or wealth , or any other outward good , although every individual of the nation puts a moral object before any mere external benefits . The answer to this is simply 32 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
... as such , be self - defence , or wealth , or any other outward good , although every individual of the nation puts a moral object before any mere external benefits . The answer to this is simply 32 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
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Jules Michelet. mere external benefits . The answer to this is simply be- cause a nation is a sovereign society , and it is something monstrous that the ultimate power in human life should be destitute of a sense of right and wrong . For ...
Jules Michelet. mere external benefits . The answer to this is simply be- cause a nation is a sovereign society , and it is something monstrous that the ultimate power in human life should be destitute of a sense of right and wrong . For ...
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... mere record of wars . In wars no doubt the end sought is no more than a nation's security or power ; in other words , that she may develop her internal life at all , or develop it with vigour . But we must recognise some worthy end for ...
... mere record of wars . In wars no doubt the end sought is no more than a nation's security or power ; in other words , that she may develop her internal life at all , or develop it with vigour . But we must recognise some worthy end for ...
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... mere ordi- nary length of human life renders it impossible for any one to have that profound acquaintance with every part of modern history in detail , which might enable him to impart a full understanding of it to others . But yet it ...
... mere ordi- nary length of human life renders it impossible for any one to have that profound acquaintance with every part of modern history in detail , which might enable him to impart a full understanding of it to others . But yet it ...
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... Mere lapse of years confers here no increase of knowledge ; four thousand years have furnished the Asiatic with scarcely any thing that de- serves the name of political experience ; two thousand years since the fall of Carthage have ...
... Mere lapse of years confers here no increase of knowledge ; four thousand years have furnished the Asiatic with scarcely any thing that de- serves the name of political experience ; two thousand years since the fall of Carthage have ...
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Page 161 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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Page 145 - I confess, that if I were called upon to name what spirit of evil predominantly deserved the name of Antichrist, I should name the spirit of chivalry — the more detestable for the very guise of the " Archangel ruined," which has made it so seductive to the most generous spirits — but to me so hateful, because it is in direct opposition to the impartial justice of the Gospel, and its comprehensive feeling of equal brotherhood, and because it so fostered a...
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Page 46 - I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it.
Page 360 - Chivalry is only a name for that general Spirit or state of mind, which disposes men to Heroic and Generous actions; and keeps them conversant with all that is Beautiful and Sublime in the Intellectual and Moral world.
Page 9 - Never may from our souls one truth depart — That an accursed thing it is to gaze On prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye...
Page 61 - But not the wildest extravagance of atheistic wickedness in modern times can go farther than the sophists of Greece went before them ; whatever audacity can dare and subtilty contrive to make the words
Page 194 - ... hills rises to its summit, and hides from view all the country behind it. Those towers are the forts of the famous lines, which, curiously resembling in shape the later Syracusan walls enclosing...
Page 71 - When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 'you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.