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... ment of Truth , have any design to lessen the value of elegant composition in our esteem . In their proper place , let the Harmony of numbers , the Luxuriance of fancy , and the Energy of expression , be cultivated to the utmost extent ...
... ment of Truth , have any design to lessen the value of elegant composition in our esteem . In their proper place , let the Harmony of numbers , the Luxuriance of fancy , and the Energy of expression , be cultivated to the utmost extent ...
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... ment , or loathsome Brutality * . I admit too , that the Imagination is capable of forming to itself a thousand additional Pleasures of a higher kind- * The genuine Happiness of our being must be some- thing , that is not incompatible ...
... ment , or loathsome Brutality * . I admit too , that the Imagination is capable of forming to itself a thousand additional Pleasures of a higher kind- * The genuine Happiness of our being must be some- thing , that is not incompatible ...
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... ment . Prepared , however , as I am , to acknow- ledge , and to celebrate , in their just pro- portion , all these Sources of terrestrial Satisfaction -- I have long excluded from my own mind every other idea of supreme Happiness , but ...
... ment . Prepared , however , as I am , to acknow- ledge , and to celebrate , in their just pro- portion , all these Sources of terrestrial Satisfaction -- I have long excluded from my own mind every other idea of supreme Happiness , but ...
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... ment , originate in false ideas of Happi- ness itself . We must , by a necessity of nature , and in the reason of things , con- tinue restless inhabitants of a disordered world , till we have recourse to " The Fountain of living Waters ...
... ment , originate in false ideas of Happi- ness itself . We must , by a necessity of nature , and in the reason of things , con- tinue restless inhabitants of a disordered world , till we have recourse to " The Fountain of living Waters ...
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... ment of the coolest Reason , is , as Time to mind , by which we perceive , arrange , compare , and de- cide . If that perception , arrangement , comparison , and the like , be right , and according to the Truth , Justice , and Reality ...
... ment of the coolest Reason , is , as Time to mind , by which we perceive , arrange , compare , and de- cide . If that perception , arrangement , comparison , and the like , be right , and according to the Truth , Justice , and Reality ...
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Page 229 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 242 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Page 162 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 208 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 24 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 162 - But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, 'He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Page 214 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Page 269 - Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
Page 215 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 385 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?" BOSWELL: "But why smite his bosom, Sir?" JOHNSON: "Why, to shew he was in earnest