A Record of Thoughts, on Religious, Political, Social and Personal Subjects, from 1843 to 1873. To which is Added "The Story of the King's Son.".Trübner, 1873 |
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... Heaven or Hell . And now for your choice . Oh strive , strive , endure to the end , and let your trust be in the Lord that He will not desert you , that He is ever near , a present help when danger is nigh , to succour and hold you by ...
... Heaven or Hell . And now for your choice . Oh strive , strive , endure to the end , and let your trust be in the Lord that He will not desert you , that He is ever near , a present help when danger is nigh , to succour and hold you by ...
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... Heaven . 20 ITALY , 1844 . The only penance it seems to me that we need undergo for our sins is the necessity of triumphing over them ; for bad habits , of escaping from their thrall . Believe me , this is no light or easy punishment ...
... Heaven . 20 ITALY , 1844 . The only penance it seems to me that we need undergo for our sins is the necessity of triumphing over them ; for bad habits , of escaping from their thrall . Believe me , this is no light or easy punishment ...
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... Heaven , but you forget that we both start from different points , and may both arrive at the centre without ever seeing each other . The native of Rome who meets a Londoner at Paris is not lost in astonishment at his having got there ...
... Heaven , but you forget that we both start from different points , and may both arrive at the centre without ever seeing each other . The native of Rome who meets a Londoner at Paris is not lost in astonishment at his having got there ...
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... heavens but with feelings of love and devotion inexpressible . Purified and ennobled at such times , I have felt myself a part , however minute , of that vast spirit through which all things subsist and exist . Infinite and universal ...
... heavens but with feelings of love and devotion inexpressible . Purified and ennobled at such times , I have felt myself a part , however minute , of that vast spirit through which all things subsist and exist . Infinite and universal ...
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... heaven and earth , then all became suddenly dark and chill , the rain - drops pattered fiercely upon the foliage , whilst the wind kept up a sharp howling contest with all surrounding objects . My spirits jumped with the day : it was ...
... heaven and earth , then all became suddenly dark and chill , the rain - drops pattered fiercely upon the foliage , whilst the wind kept up a sharp howling contest with all surrounding objects . My spirits jumped with the day : it was ...
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Page 371 - 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 379 - ... to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Page 359 - I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Page 373 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, > with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 377 - I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth, without single person or house of lords, is by far the best government if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot yet attain it.
Page 372 - God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin...
Page 360 - No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 379 - They teach not, that to govern well, is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue, and that which springs from thence, magnanimity (take heed of that}, and that which is our beginning, regeneration, and happiest end, likeness to God, which in one word we call godliness; and that this is the true flourishing of a land, other things follow as the shadow does the substance; to teach thus were mere pulpitry to them.
Page 379 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Page 373 - ... and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house. He entertains him, gives him gifts, feasts him, lodges him ; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped, and sumptuously laid to sleep ; rises is saluted, and after the malmsey, or some...