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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... heart , or when anything does not succeed according to his wish and pleasure . " - SWEDEN- BORG'S " Divine ... hearts of them and understandeth all their works . " - Psalm xxxiii . 7 How wonderful is the circulation which all things ...
... heart , or when anything does not succeed according to his wish and pleasure . " - SWEDEN- BORG'S " Divine ... hearts of them and understandeth all their works . " - Psalm xxxiii . 7 How wonderful is the circulation which all things ...
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... heart to the heart ; of material life as in vegetables , from seed to seed ; of man from dust to dust . Moisture taken from the earth and returning in freshening showers , the circle of the seasons , in fact , everything on earth the ...
... heart to the heart ; of material life as in vegetables , from seed to seed ; of man from dust to dust . Moisture taken from the earth and returning in freshening showers , the circle of the seasons , in fact , everything on earth the ...
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... heart And such delights , I could not live . The soul will never cease to be , And nought can part These feelings from my soul , Such power they give . ' Tis they that form the whole Of it , and are its love , its life , its sense ...
... heart And such delights , I could not live . The soul will never cease to be , And nought can part These feelings from my soul , Such power they give . ' Tis they that form the whole Of it , and are its love , its life , its sense ...
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... heart's deep sadness , When gnawing grief denies refreshing slumber , When hours by minute moments ye do number , In time of coming madness , Return to me . When thoughts of blackest birth drown life in anguish , Or reason lost , in ...
... heart's deep sadness , When gnawing grief denies refreshing slumber , When hours by minute moments ye do number , In time of coming madness , Return to me . When thoughts of blackest birth drown life in anguish , Or reason lost , in ...
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... heart and slumber from the body then , oh ! then , shall comfort and hope be borne on the strain of divine music which steals over thy senses ; then shall the evil demons fly before the fair spirits who float on those harmonious notes ...
... heart and slumber from the body then , oh ! then , shall comfort and hope be borne on the strain of divine music which steals over thy senses ; then shall the evil demons fly before the fair spirits who float on those harmonious notes ...
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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...