The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen14;Volumen77Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1871 |
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... hope for the fate of virtuous heathens . " Amongst so many subdivisions of hell , " he says , " there might have been one limbo left for these . " With a most characteristic turn , he softens the horror of the reflec- tion , by giving ...
... hope for the fate of virtuous heathens . " Amongst so many subdivisions of hell , " he says , " there might have been one limbo left for these . " With a most characteristic turn , he softens the horror of the reflec- tion , by giving ...
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... hope for , all the vanities of this world should not entreat a moment's breath from me . Could the devil work my be- lief to imagine I could never die , I could not outlive that very thought . I have so abject a conceit of this common ...
... hope for , all the vanities of this world should not entreat a moment's breath from me . Could the devil work my be- lief to imagine I could never die , I could not outlive that very thought . I have so abject a conceit of this common ...
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... hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector . " " And , therefore , useless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories with present considerations seems a vanity out of date , and a superannuated piece of folly . We cannot hope to ...
... hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector . " " And , therefore , useless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories with present considerations seems a vanity out of date , and a superannuated piece of folly . We cannot hope to ...
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... hope of immortality will be blotted out of our existence . I believe that this fear , if it be founded upon the theory of the moral sense , as set forth in the " Descent of Man , " is a groundless one ; and the object of the present ...
... hope of immortality will be blotted out of our existence . I believe that this fear , if it be founded upon the theory of the moral sense , as set forth in the " Descent of Man , " is a groundless one ; and the object of the present ...
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... hope of immortality is acknowledged by all to be more a conviction than a certainty . " I do not mean to affirm , " says Bishop Butler , " that there is the same degree of convic- tion that our living powers will continue after death ...
... hope of immortality is acknowledged by all to be more a conviction than a certainty . " I do not mean to affirm , " says Bishop Butler , " that there is the same degree of convic- tion that our living powers will continue after death ...
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Página 30 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 330 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Página 76 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 78 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Página 25 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Página 19 - All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Página 22 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast...
Página 85 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Página 225 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Página 176 - There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare That you hardly at first see the strength that is there...