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, Volumen3R. Fenner, 1818 - 375 páginas |
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... less , to judge , in the more complicated moral character of a people , what is progression , and what is decline . Into a mind possessed with this persuasion of the perpetual progress of man , there may even imperceptibly steal both ...
... less , to judge , in the more complicated moral character of a people , what is progression , and what is decline . Into a mind possessed with this persuasion of the perpetual progress of man , there may even imperceptibly steal both ...
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... less could they have displayed them- selves with that eager haste , and with those beneficent triumphs which will to the end of time be looked back upon with admiration and gratitude . If the foregoing obvious distinctions be once ...
... less could they have displayed them- selves with that eager haste , and with those beneficent triumphs which will to the end of time be looked back upon with admiration and gratitude . If the foregoing obvious distinctions be once ...
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... less to be expected - in fact , that there is little natural connection between them ? Have I perceived this truth ? and , perceiving it , does the countenance of philosophy continue to ap- pear as bright and beautiful in my eyes ? -Has ...
... less to be expected - in fact , that there is little natural connection between them ? Have I perceived this truth ? and , perceiving it , does the countenance of philosophy continue to ap- pear as bright and beautiful in my eyes ? -Has ...
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... less faithful and enthusiastic . - We would tell him that there are paths which he has not trodden ; recesses which he has not penetrated , that there is a beauty which he has not seen , a pathos which he has not felt - a sublimity to ...
... less faithful and enthusiastic . - We would tell him that there are paths which he has not trodden ; recesses which he has not penetrated , that there is a beauty which he has not seen , a pathos which he has not felt - a sublimity to ...
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... less upon his sentient than upon his intellectual being - to nature , as lead- ing on insensibly to the society of reason ; but to reason and will , as leading back to the wisdom of nature . A re - union , in this order accomplished ...
... less upon his sentient than upon his intellectual being - to nature , as lead- ing on insensibly to the society of reason ; but to reason and will , as leading back to the wisdom of nature . A re - union , in this order accomplished ...
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Página 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
Página 243 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Página 243 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 243 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 143 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Página 227 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 64 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Página 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 272 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infants' breath: And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 149 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...