Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1872 - English essays |
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... practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness . Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion , it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been ...
... practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness . Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion , it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been ...
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... practical justice in such a community there will be exceedingly little , but as society cannot go along at all without paying morality some outward homage , there will of course be an established religion , an Olympus , a Val- halla ...
... practical justice in such a community there will be exceedingly little , but as society cannot go along at all without paying morality some outward homage , there will of course be an established religion , an Olympus , a Val- halla ...
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... practical obligation , and new moons and sabbaths , outward acts of devotion , or formulas of par- ticular opinions . It is a state of things perpetually recur- ring ; for there is nothing , if it would only act , more agree- able to ...
... practical obligation , and new moons and sabbaths , outward acts of devotion , or formulas of par- ticular opinions . It is a state of things perpetually recur- ring ; for there is nothing , if it would only act , more agree- able to ...
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... of wealth and the pleasures which wealth can purchase ; and the rules for our practical guidance are the laws , as the economists say , by which wealth can be acquired . It is an excellent creed for those who have the 24 Calvinism .
... of wealth and the pleasures which wealth can purchase ; and the rules for our practical guidance are the laws , as the economists say , by which wealth can be acquired . It is an excellent creed for those who have the 24 Calvinism .
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... practical power ; nay , without ceasing to be professed , and even sincerely held , may become more mischievous than salutary . And this is owing to the fatal distinction of which I spoke just now , which seems to have an irresistible ...
... practical power ; nay , without ceasing to be professed , and even sincerely held , may become more mischievous than salutary . And this is owing to the fatal distinction of which I spoke just now , which seems to have an irresistible ...
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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.