The Works of William E. Channing, Volumen1James Munroe, 1845 |
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... mind , and of giving the results of quiet , long - continued thought . Some topics will be found to recur often , perhaps the reader may think too often ; but it is in this way , that a writer manifests his individuality , and he can in ...
... mind , and of giving the results of quiet , long - continued thought . Some topics will be found to recur often , perhaps the reader may think too often ; but it is in this way , that a writer manifests his individuality , and he can in ...
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... mind from the creature to the creator ; that the creature cannot sink too low in our esti- mation , or God fill too high a sphere . God , we are told , must not be limited ; nor are his rights to be restrained by any rights in his ...
... mind from the creature to the creator ; that the creature cannot sink too low in our esti- mation , or God fill too high a sphere . God , we are told , must not be limited ; nor are his rights to be restrained by any rights in his ...
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... mind from God's Infinity . This is the grand truth ; but it must not stand alone in the mind . The finite is something real as well as the infinite . We must reconcile the two in our theology . It is as dangerous to exclude the former ...
... mind from God's Infinity . This is the grand truth ; but it must not stand alone in the mind . The finite is something real as well as the infinite . We must reconcile the two in our theology . It is as dangerous to exclude the former ...
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... mind of man , in its pres- ent infancy and blindness , is apt to grow servile through fear , and seeks to propitiate the Divine Being by flattery and self - depreciation . Thus deep are the springs of re- ligious error . To admit all ...
... mind of man , in its pres- ent infancy and blindness , is apt to grow servile through fear , and seeks to propitiate the Divine Being by flattery and self - depreciation . Thus deep are the springs of re- ligious error . To admit all ...
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... mind to the exclusive thought of God , to the denial or forgetfulness of all other existence and power , has come forth in various forms . The Catholic church , notwith- standing its boasted unity , has teemed with mystics , who have ...
... mind to the exclusive thought of God , to the denial or forgetfulness of all other existence and power , has come forth in various forms . The Catholic church , notwith- standing its boasted unity , has teemed with mystics , who have ...
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Página 32 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Página 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Página 28 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 13 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Página 50 - O Adam, one almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection; one first matter all, Indued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Página 50 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower...
Página 320 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Página 52 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Página 14 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Página 30 - Then amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty measures, to sing and celebrate thy divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages...