The Christian Examiner, Volume 74Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1863 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves , than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest . ” p . 27 . - ― The position is a comprehensive one certainly , but it need not excite the alarm of the most ...
... suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves , than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest . ” p . 27 . - ― The position is a comprehensive one certainly , but it need not excite the alarm of the most ...
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... suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in , but itself doing nothing for the mind or heart , except standing sentinel over them to keep them vacant . " Men value most that for which they pay highest . The real use and value of ...
... suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in , but itself doing nothing for the mind or heart , except standing sentinel over them to keep them vacant . " Men value most that for which they pay highest . The real use and value of ...
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... suffering our progress to stop . The foremost men in all the oppressed nations of Europe look to us as guides in the path which they hope one day to follow . It rests with us to show them that we do not stop when we have reached the ...
... suffering our progress to stop . The foremost men in all the oppressed nations of Europe look to us as guides in the path which they hope one day to follow . It rests with us to show them that we do not stop when we have reached the ...
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... suffering . For some time he wan- dered about in North Wales , subsisting on berries , or such chance sums as he ... suffer- ings we owe two of the most pathetic episodes of his writ- ings , his boyish intimacy with Ann , and with 7 ...
... suffering . For some time he wan- dered about in North Wales , subsisting on berries , or such chance sums as he ... suffer- ings we owe two of the most pathetic episodes of his writ- ings , his boyish intimacy with Ann , and with 7 ...
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... suffer still more from the self - created one of ghosts . We lay upon the floor , with a bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow , but with no other covering than a sort of large horseman's cloak . " After various negotiations with ...
... suffer still more from the self - created one of ghosts . We lay upon the floor , with a bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow , but with no other covering than a sort of large horseman's cloak . " After various negotiations with ...
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Page 413 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Page 92 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 92 - Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy...
Page 8 - Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits ; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character ; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow : without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.
Page 14 - In sober truth, whatever homage may be professed, or even paid, to real or supposed mental superiority, the general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition from feudality to the present time, the individual was a power in himself ; and if he had either great talents or a high social position, he was a considerable power. At present individuals...
Page 204 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 7 - Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them...
Page 350 - Or, though they came with the rest in ships that bound through the waters, Dare they not enter the fight or stand in the council of Heroes, All for fear of the shame and the taunts my crime has awakened ? So said she : — they long since in Earth's soft arms were reposing. There, in their own dear land, their Fatherland, Lacedaemon.
Page 8 - It comprises, first, the inward domain of consciousness ; demanding liberty of conscience, in the most comprehensive sense ; liberty of thought and feeling ; absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral, or theological.
Page 265 - America, then, exhibits in her social state an extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect, or, in other words, more equal in their strength, than in any other country of the world, or in any age of which history has preserved the remembrance.