The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1854 |
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... prove useful to those who read the work for the first time in the present edition . Particular Introduction . Essays I - IV . pp . 19-41 . Duty of the communication of truth , and the conditions under which it may be safely communicated ...
... prove useful to those who read the work for the first time in the present edition . Particular Introduction . Essays I - IV . pp . 19-41 . Duty of the communication of truth , and the conditions under which it may be safely communicated ...
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... prove to others only as far as I can prevail on them to retire into themselves and make their own minds the objects of their steadfast attention . But , on the other hand , I feel too deeply the importance of the convic- tions , which ...
... prove to others only as far as I can prevail on them to retire into themselves and make their own minds the objects of their steadfast attention . But , on the other hand , I feel too deeply the importance of the convic- tions , which ...
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... proves , by falsehoods either of omission or of positive error , that he has neg- lected to possess himself , not only of the information requisite for this particular subject ; but even of those acquirements , and that general ...
... proves , by falsehoods either of omission or of positive error , that he has neg- lected to possess himself , not only of the information requisite for this particular subject ; but even of those acquirements , and that general ...
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... of truth , its extent and conditions . I would fain obviate all apprehen- sions either of my incaution on the one hand , or of any insincere * Job xiii . 7.-Ed. reserve on the other , by proving that the more ESSAY V. 45.
... of truth , its extent and conditions . I would fain obviate all apprehen- sions either of my incaution on the one hand , or of any insincere * Job xiii . 7.-Ed. reserve on the other , by proving that the more ESSAY V. 45.
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... proving that the more strictly we ad- here to the letter of the moral law in this respect , the more com- pletely shall we reconcile that law with prudence ; thus securing a purity in the principle without mischief from the practice . I ...
... proving that the more strictly we ad- here to the letter of the moral law in this respect , the more com- pletely shall we reconcile that law with prudence ; thus securing a purity in the principle without mischief from the practice . I ...
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Page 408 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 205 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 77 - 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 411 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 204 - Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 458 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 506 - Straight forward goes The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.