The College Year: Vesper Addresses in Wellesley College Chapel

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Houghton Mifflin, 1910 - 213 páginas

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Página 20 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Página 197 - God's gift was that man should conceive of truth And yearn to gain it, catching at mistake, As midway help till he reach fact indeed.
Página 46 - For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of Hosts, is his name.
Página 57 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions : And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Página 15 - When l consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast ordaiued ; what is man, that thou art mindful of him ? or the son of man, that thou visitest him ? — Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour ; and hast set him over the works of thy hands.
Página 164 - And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Página 95 - The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep our hearts and minds ; through Christ Jesus.
Página 108 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Página 107 - The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley ; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Página 87 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

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