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... human lifts us to a sense of the divine . In the spiritual as in the physical world , there can be no health in unexercised powers . Man grows by struggle from the lower • to the higher life ; and for this evolution INTRODUCTION . 21.
... human lifts us to a sense of the divine . In the spiritual as in the physical world , there can be no health in unexercised powers . Man grows by struggle from the lower • to the higher life ; and for this evolution INTRODUCTION . 21.
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... human voice A thousand modulations ; heir by right Indisputable of Arion's fame : Now say , what wonder is it if a son Of thine delight in verse , if so conjoined In close affinity , we sympathise In social arts and kindred studies ...
... human voice A thousand modulations ; heir by right Indisputable of Arion's fame : Now say , what wonder is it if a son Of thine delight in verse , if so conjoined In close affinity , we sympathise In social arts and kindred studies ...
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... human sympathy , and the piece closed with a glance towards the coming days of travel , - " To - morrow to fresh woods and pastures new . " The only part of " Lycidas " that here concerns us is the passage in which Milton draws from his ...
... human sympathy , and the piece closed with a glance towards the coming days of travel , - " To - morrow to fresh woods and pastures new . " The only part of " Lycidas " that here concerns us is the passage in which Milton draws from his ...
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... human weakness rather than of strength . " While an incomplete civilisation makes it still inevitable that brute force shall oppose brute force in battles of opinion , the conditions of the time must be accepted . But sword and gun ...
... human weakness rather than of strength . " While an incomplete civilisation makes it still inevitable that brute force shall oppose brute force in battles of opinion , the conditions of the time must be accepted . But sword and gun ...
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... human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues ; the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation , the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of darkness and ...
... human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues ; the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banner of salvation , the martyrs , with the unresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of darkness and ...
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Page 314 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 414 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 323 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 314 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 300 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 338 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Page 271 - 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.
Page 324 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 307 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 118 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.