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... lives , to find how much , in our present society , a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value on whether he reads during that day , and , far more still , on what he reads during it . More and more he who examines ...
... lives , to find how much , in our present society , a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value on whether he reads during that day , and , far more still , on what he reads during it . More and more he who examines ...
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... live and to die with , and they are such as to inspire an affectionate and revering attachment . True , the reproaches of Noncon- formists against this order for " retaining badges of Antichristian recognisance ; " and for " corrupting ...
... live and to die with , and they are such as to inspire an affectionate and revering attachment . True , the reproaches of Noncon- formists against this order for " retaining badges of Antichristian recognisance ; " and for " corrupting ...
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... lives and thoughts to becoming rich , are just the very people whom we call the Philistines . Culture says : " Consider these people , then , their way of life , their habits , their manners , the very tones of their voice ; look at ...
... lives and thoughts to becoming rich , are just the very people whom we call the Philistines . Culture says : " Consider these people , then , their way of life , their habits , their manners , the very tones of their voice ; look at ...
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... lives for ! Such , I say , is the wonderful virtue of even the beginnings of perfection , of having conquered even the plain faults of our animality , that the religious organisation which has helped us to do it can seem to us something ...
... lives for ! Such , I say , is the wonderful virtue of even the beginnings of perfection , of having conquered even the plain faults of our animality , that the religious organisation which has helped us to do it can seem to us something ...
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... live in and for it ; -so I say with regard to the religious organisations . Look at the life imaged in such a newspaper as the Nonconformist ; —a life of jealousy of the Establishment , disputes , tea - meetings , openings of chapels ...
... live in and for it ; -so I say with regard to the religious organisations . Look at the life imaged in such a newspaper as the Nonconformist ; —a life of jealousy of the Establishment , disputes , tea - meetings , openings of chapels ...
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Page 189 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Page 49 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Page 49 - Ages, in spite of all his imperfections ; and thence the boundless emotion and enthusiasm which Abelard excited. Such were Lessing and Herder in Germany, at the end of the last century ; and their services to Germany were in this way inestimably precious. Generations will pass, and literary monuments will accumulate, and works far more perfect than the works of Lessing and Herder will be produced in Germany; and yet...
Page 26 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 130 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.
Page 22 - Bodily exercise profiteth little ; but godliness is profitable unto all things," says the author of the Epistle to Timothy. And the utilitarian Franklin says just as explicitly : — " Eat and drink such an exact quantity as suits the constitution of thy body^ in reference to the services of the mind...
Page 45 - From the moment of reading that, I am delivered from the bondage of Bentham! the fanaticism of his adherents can touch me no longer. I feel the inadequacy of his mind and ideas for supplying the rule of human society, for perfection.
Page 44 - Does your Majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere personal attachment and affection?" I well remember how, when first I read that, I drew a deep breath of relief, and said to myself: "After all, there is a stretch of humanity beyond Franklin's victorious good sense...
Page 21 - Why, one has heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of the Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them...
Page 10 - ... the danger now is, not that people should obstinately refuse to allow anything but their old routine to pass for reason and the will of God, but either that they should allow some novelty or other to pass for these too easily, or else that they should underrate the importance of them altogether, and think it enough to follow action for its own sake, without troubling themselves to make reason and the will of God prevail therein.