The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volumen2R. Fenner, 1818 |
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... argument of the competency of all men to judge for themselves , he alludes to that elevation in the kingdom of heaven which is promised to every man who shall be virtuous , or in the language of that time , a Saint . Do ye not know ...
... argument of the competency of all men to judge for themselves , he alludes to that elevation in the kingdom of heaven which is promised to every man who shall be virtuous , or in the language of that time , a Saint . Do ye not know ...
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... arguments by the poignant condiment of personal slander , incapable of appealing to the envy of the multitude by bitter declamation against the follies and oppressions of the higher classes ! He would shrink with horror from the thought ...
... arguments by the poignant condiment of personal slander , incapable of appealing to the envy of the multitude by bitter declamation against the follies and oppressions of the higher classes ! He would shrink with horror from the thought ...
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... arguments ; and still less to any genuine reve- rence of humanity in the abstract . The phy- siocratic system promises to deduce all things , and every thing relative to law and govern- ment , with mathematical exactness and cer- tainty ...
... arguments ; and still less to any genuine reve- rence of humanity in the abstract . The phy- siocratic system promises to deduce all things , and every thing relative to law and govern- ment , with mathematical exactness and cer- tainty ...
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... arguments for increasing the power of the people be re- applied to the existing government , by the other . If the most disgusting forms of despo- tism were spoken of by the one in the same respectful language as the executive power of ...
... arguments for increasing the power of the people be re- applied to the existing government , by the other . If the most disgusting forms of despo- tism were spoken of by the one in the same respectful language as the executive power of ...
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... arguments of general Reason , and the same disregard of ancient ordinances and established opinions , with which the state itself had been attacked by the Jacobins . The wages of state - dependence were represented as sacred as the ...
... arguments of general Reason , and the same disregard of ancient ordinances and established opinions , with which the state itself had been attacked by the Jacobins . The wages of state - dependence were represented as sacred as the ...
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Página 326 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Página 327 - I heeded not the summons:— happy time It was indeed for all of us ; for me It was a time of rapture !— Clear and loud The village clock tolled six — I wheeled about, Proud and exulting like an untired horse That cares not for his home. — All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice, in games Confederate...
Página 327 - And not a voice was idle; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Página 326 - At noon ; and mid the calm of summer nights, When, by the margin of the trembling Lake, Beneath the gloomy hills, I homeward went In solitude, such intercourse was mine : 'Twas mine among the fields both day and night, And by the waters, all the summer long.
Página 334 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 165 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Página 334 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Página 328 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short ; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep.
Página 309 - He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a stair-case ; and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties, and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk...
Página 105 - Not yet enslaved, not wholly vile, O Albion ! O my mother Isle ! Thy valleys, fair as Eden's bowers, Glitter green with sunny showers ; Thy grassy uplands gentle swells Echo to the bleat of flocks ; (Those grassy hills, those glittering dells Proudly ramparted with rocks) And Ocean mid his uproar wild Speaks safety to his island-child, Hence for many a fearless age Has social Quiet loved thy shore ; Nor ever proud invader's rage Or sacked thy towers, or stained thy fields with gore.