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... kind of relig- ious or moral action or emotion . We are by no means among those who utter a sweeping condemnation against all laughter in the serious provinces of human affairs : we consider the sense of the ridiculous ex- tremely ...
... kind of relig- ious or moral action or emotion . We are by no means among those who utter a sweeping condemnation against all laughter in the serious provinces of human affairs : we consider the sense of the ridiculous ex- tremely ...
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... kind of worship possible to men . But we mean not to assail Mr. Carlyle from this point : we likewise turn to the voice of history and the heart . We find him tracing all worship to admiration and reverence for great men ; we find him ...
... kind of worship possible to men . But we mean not to assail Mr. Carlyle from this point : we likewise turn to the voice of history and the heart . We find him tracing all worship to admiration and reverence for great men ; we find him ...
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... kind precisely similar . Any thing analogous to worship is foreign to every such case ; a fact rendered palpable and undeniable by the simple reflection , that there is no feeling of an infinite respect , as due to what is infinite , in ...
... kind precisely similar . Any thing analogous to worship is foreign to every such case ; a fact rendered palpable and undeniable by the simple reflection , that there is no feeling of an infinite respect , as due to what is infinite , in ...
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... kind super- nal powers between the breast of Greek or Trojan hero and the mortal stab : it alone shuts our hearts against hatred of our brothers . And think not the second charge valid : all human history is against you . Men have ...
... kind super- nal powers between the breast of Greek or Trojan hero and the mortal stab : it alone shuts our hearts against hatred of our brothers . And think not the second charge valid : all human history is against you . Men have ...
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... . The extent of information they afford us regarding him may be summed up by saying , that they show him to have been methodic , gentle , and , above all , considerately kind . He seems certainly never to AND THE RISE OF PHILANTHROPY . 101.
... . The extent of information they afford us regarding him may be summed up by saying , that they show him to have been methodic , gentle , and , above all , considerately kind . He seems certainly never to AND THE RISE OF PHILANTHROPY . 101.
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Page 299 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
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 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 - 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 409 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Page 492 - We exist only as we energize; pleasure is the reflex of unimpeded energy ; energy is the mean by which our faculties are developed ; and a higher energy the end which their development proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a stimulus to the exercise of our powers, and the condition of their more complete activity.
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 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...