Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1872 - English essays |
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... matters of larger moment , or that the observation of facts by which alone we arrive at scientific conclusions should lead us wrong , or should lead to nothing when we interrogate them on our moral condition . Piety , like wis- dom ...
... matters of larger moment , or that the observation of facts by which alone we arrive at scientific conclusions should lead us wrong , or should lead to nothing when we interrogate them on our moral condition . Piety , like wis- dom ...
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... matter entirely different . I am going to ask you to consider how it came to pass that if Calvinism is indeed the hard and unreasonable creed which modern enlightenment declares it to be , it has possessed such singular attractions in ...
... matter entirely different . I am going to ask you to consider how it came to pass that if Calvinism is indeed the hard and unreasonable creed which modern enlightenment declares it to be , it has possessed such singular attractions in ...
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... matters as phenomena of human experience , the lessons of which would be identically the same if no revelation existed . - The discovery of the key to the hieroglyphics , the exca- vations in the tombs , the investigations carried on by ...
... matters as phenomena of human experience , the lessons of which would be identically the same if no revelation existed . - The discovery of the key to the hieroglyphics , the exca- vations in the tombs , the investigations carried on by ...
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... matter of course , to gods which were but nature in a personal disguise . Zoroaster , like Moses , saw behind the physical forces into the deeper laws of right and wrong . He supposed himself to discover two antagonist powers contending ...
... matter of course , to gods which were but nature in a personal disguise . Zoroaster , like Moses , saw behind the physical forces into the deeper laws of right and wrong . He supposed himself to discover two antagonist powers contending ...
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... matter which he found to be held by the politicians of the age which he was describing , and perhaps of his own . Religion , as a moral force , died away with the establishment of the Roman Empire , and with it died probity , patriotism ...
... matter which he found to be held by the politicians of the age which he was describing , and perhaps of his own . Religion , as a moral force , died away with the establishment of the Roman Empire , and with it died probity , patriotism ...
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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.