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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... hold you by the hand , to keep your foot from stumbling . His divine care watches over you sleeping and awake . He is your true Father , ever ready to receive the prodigal with outstretched arms . Remain , then , happy in His forgive ...
... hold you by the hand , to keep your foot from stumbling . His divine care watches over you sleeping and awake . He is your true Father , ever ready to receive the prodigal with outstretched arms . Remain , then , happy in His forgive ...
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... hold , fixed even in death . 21 It is difficult to put the harness of virtue on the back of hot youth . I saw this morning a young horse training for harness . How he plunged and reared under the idea of restraint ! How he raged to find ...
... hold , fixed even in death . 21 It is difficult to put the harness of virtue on the back of hot youth . I saw this morning a young horse training for harness . How he plunged and reared under the idea of restraint ! How he raged to find ...
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... holds communion with God ; but when some of its sweetest notes answer not to the hand of the Great Musician , and the others are " jangling out of tune , " what a miserable discord annoys and alarms us . Our souls are affrighted and ...
... holds communion with God ; but when some of its sweetest notes answer not to the hand of the Great Musician , and the others are " jangling out of tune , " what a miserable discord annoys and alarms us . Our souls are affrighted and ...
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... hold equal dominion here . Not a shrub , nor a tree , or flower , but drank in the essence of its humid life , and waved in soft rustlings to the breeze caused by some neighbouring cascade ; here bloomed eternal vitality . Autumn and ...
... hold equal dominion here . Not a shrub , nor a tree , or flower , but drank in the essence of its humid life , and waved in soft rustlings to the breeze caused by some neighbouring cascade ; here bloomed eternal vitality . Autumn and ...
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... hold how the kernels , by the great magician's power , fly from his outstretched maw ! 56 FRAGMENT . ITALY , 1847 . NIGHT leans over the Earth like a loving mother , and envelopes her with raiment of melancholy black , and hides from ...
... hold how the kernels , by the great magician's power , fly from his outstretched maw ! 56 FRAGMENT . ITALY , 1847 . NIGHT leans over the Earth like a loving mother , and envelopes her with raiment of melancholy black , and hides from ...
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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...