Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1872 - English essays |
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... cause . In every action the will is determined by the mo- tive which at the moment is operating most powerfully upon it . When we do wrong , we are led away by temp- tation . If we overcome our temptation , we overcome it either because ...
... cause . In every action the will is determined by the mo- tive which at the moment is operating most powerfully upon it . When we do wrong , we are led away by temp- tation . If we overcome our temptation , we overcome it either because ...
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... caused organic changes there . It had strength , wealth , power , coherence , a vigorous mon- archy , dominant and exclusive castes of nobles and priests , and a proletariat of slaves . Its cities ; temples , and monu- ments are still ...
... caused organic changes there . It had strength , wealth , power , coherence , a vigorous mon- archy , dominant and exclusive castes of nobles and priests , and a proletariat of slaves . Its cities ; temples , and monu- ments are still ...
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... cause and effect , but a perfectly just , perfectly wise being , who governed all things by the everlasting immutable laws of his own nature ; that when these laws were resisted or forgotten they wrought ruin , and confusion , and ...
... cause and effect , but a perfectly just , perfectly wise being , who governed all things by the everlasting immutable laws of his own nature ; that when these laws were resisted or forgotten they wrought ruin , and confusion , and ...
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... cause . If they indulged any personal hope , it was only that their weak- nesses would not be remembered against them , that , hav- ing been chosen for a work in which the victory was as- sured , they would be made themselves worthy of ...
... cause . If they indulged any personal hope , it was only that their weak- nesses would not be remembered against them , that , hav- ing been chosen for a work in which the victory was as- sured , they would be made themselves worthy of ...
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... cause the event has proved it by the cause coming to nothing . The world is not so constituted that courage , and strength , and endurance , and organization , and success long sustained are to be ob- tained in the service of falsehood ...
... cause the event has proved it by the cause coming to nothing . The world is not so constituted that courage , and strength , and endurance , and organization , and success long sustained are to be ob- tained in the service of falsehood ...
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Page 23 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 110 - ... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.
Page 363 - Whoever travels this country, and observes the face of nature, or the faces and habits and dwellings of the natives, will hardly think himself in a land, where law, religion, or common humanity is professed.
Page 24 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 95 - If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear.
Page 109 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 96 - The wicked flees, when no one pursueth;" then why does he flee? whence his terror? who is it that he sees in solitude, in darkness, in the hidden chambers of his heart? If the cause of these emotions does not belong to this visible world, the Object to which his perception is directed must be Supernatural and Divine; and thus the phenomena of Conscience, as a dictate, avail to impress the imagination with the picture of a Supreme Governor, a Judge, holy, just, powerful, all-seeing, retributive, and...
Page 31 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Page 456 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.