Short Studies on Great Subjects, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1872 - English essays |
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... tell us of things that were done in ancient times . They tell us of things which will be hereafter , or which might or would have been under certain conditions . O the actual outward dispensation under which we live at pres- ent , we ...
... tell us of things that were done in ancient times . They tell us of things which will be hereafter , or which might or would have been under certain conditions . O the actual outward dispensation under which we live at pres- ent , we ...
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... . To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair . To what purpose the effort to be virtuous when it is an - - effort which is foredoomed to fail , when those 10 Calvinism .
... . To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair . To what purpose the effort to be virtuous when it is an - - effort which is foredoomed to fail , when those 10 Calvinism .
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... tell them , while their enjoyments or occupations are in no way interfered with . The mischief is that the laws of nature remain meanwhile unsuspended ; and all the functions of society become poi- soned through neglect of them ...
... tell them , while their enjoyments or occupations are in no way interfered with . The mischief is that the laws of nature remain meanwhile unsuspended ; and all the functions of society become poi- soned through neglect of them ...
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... tell . He is too keenly aware of the selfish and cowardly thoughts which rise up to mar and thwart his nobler aspirations to believe that they can possibly be his own . If he conquers his baser nature , he feels that he is conquering ...
... tell . He is too keenly aware of the selfish and cowardly thoughts which rise up to mar and thwart his nobler aspirations to believe that they can possibly be his own . If he conquers his baser nature , he feels that he is conquering ...
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James Anthony Froude. of the first country which , so far as history can tell , suc- ceeded in achieving a state of high civilization . From a period the remoteness of which it is unsafe to conjecture there had been established in Egypt ...
James Anthony Froude. of the first country which , so far as history can tell , suc- ceeded in achieving a state of high civilization . From a period the remoteness of which it is unsafe to conjecture there had been established in Egypt ...
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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.