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... metaphysical supports for his opinions ; he has long listened to the great voices of life and history ; but we think his early works afford us the philosophic explanation of his doctrine of hero - worship . On a pantheistic scheme of ...
... metaphysical supports for his opinions ; he has long listened to the great voices of life and history ; but we think his early works afford us the philosophic explanation of his doctrine of hero - worship . On a pantheistic scheme of ...
Page 79
... metaphysics here : we write with a practical purpose , and in a popular form ; and , there- fore rest all on an ... metaphysical nature , which is extremely simple , and seems to bear very strongly against the theory of revenge ; it ...
... metaphysics here : we write with a practical purpose , and in a popular form ; and , there- fore rest all on an ... metaphysical nature , which is extremely simple , and seems to bear very strongly against the theory of revenge ; it ...
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... metaphysical arguments . Every man could understand and sympathize with Coleridge , when he said he would tolerate men , but for principles he would have no toleration . The present Christian sees no mystery in that passage where God is ...
... metaphysical arguments . Every man could understand and sympathize with Coleridge , when he said he would tolerate men , but for principles he would have no toleration . The present Christian sees no mystery in that passage where God is ...
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... metaphysical as well as a poetical argument for essential human brotherhood might perhaps be drawn : the very fact that the human eye has been opened , as no other being's on earth has been , to see the face of the one God , seems a ...
... metaphysical as well as a poetical argument for essential human brotherhood might perhaps be drawn : the very fact that the human eye has been opened , as no other being's on earth has been , to see the face of the one God , seems a ...
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... metaphysical speculation , his simple theory of the world was , that all men were equally devoid of merit before God , and that there is no reason by possibility to be alleged why we should not love every member of the human family ...
... metaphysical speculation , his simple theory of the world was , that all men were equally devoid of merit before God , and that there is no reason by possibility to be alleged why we should not love every member of the human family ...
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Page 409 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 435 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 409 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Page 409 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him: - Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Page 519 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Page 152 - near the village of Dauphigny ; this would suit me nicely ; you know it well, for I have often said that I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever, to mark where I am laid : but lay me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
Page 79 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 15 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...
Page 300 - That not a worm is cloven in vain ; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 290 - The Royalists themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the discarded warriors prospered beyond other men ; that none was charged with any theft or robbery ; that none was heard to ask an alms ; and that, if a baker, a mason, or a wagoner attracted notice by his diligence and sobriety, he was, in all probability, one of Oliver's old soldiers.