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... heaven . I take some miserable child here in this city , squalid in dress and look , ignorant and wicked too as most men judge of vagrant vice , made so by circumstances over which that child had no control ; I turn off with a shudder ...
... heaven . I take some miserable child here in this city , squalid in dress and look , ignorant and wicked too as most men judge of vagrant vice , made so by circumstances over which that child had no control ; I turn off with a shudder ...
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... heaven now , or else in hell ; others , in a strange and transient home , imperfect in its joy or woe , waiting the final day and more complete ac- count . It seems to me this notion is absurd and impos- sible : absurd in its doctrine ...
... heaven now , or else in hell ; others , in a strange and transient home , imperfect in its joy or woe , waiting the final day and more complete ac- count . It seems to me this notion is absurd and impos- sible : absurd in its doctrine ...
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... heaven as around the wards of their native city . What we can know in detail is cautiously to be inferred from the nature of man and the nature of God . I will modestly set down what it seems to me . It must be a conscious state . Man ...
... heaven as around the wards of their native city . What we can know in detail is cautiously to be inferred from the nature of man and the nature of God . I will modestly set down what it seems to me . It must be a conscious state . Man ...
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... heaven with him - and that day . Many seem inferior to me , who in God's sight must be far before me ; men who now seem too low to learn of me here , may be too high to teach me there . I cannot think the future world is to be feared ...
... heaven with him - and that day . Many seem inferior to me , who in God's sight must be far before me ; men who now seem too low to learn of me here , may be too high to teach me there . I cannot think the future world is to be feared ...
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... heaven here , and must enter higher up than a really wicked man , or a slothful one , or one but negatively good . He can go from earth to heaven , as from one room to another , pass gradually , as from winter to spring . To such an one ...
... heaven here , and must enter higher up than a really wicked man , or a slothful one , or one but negatively good . He can go from earth to heaven , as from one room to another , pass gradually , as from winter to spring . To such an one ...
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Page 208 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 1 - Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Page 34 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 44 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 208 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 191 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Page 5 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.
Page 245 - Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness, speaks : It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, While rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 210 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 129 - That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the tree* ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...