The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed |
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... understanding and acquirements in that mode and direction , in which I may be enabled to benefit the largest number possible of my fellow - creatures . ANTECEDENT to all history , and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition ...
... understanding and acquirements in that mode and direction , in which I may be enabled to benefit the largest number possible of my fellow - creatures . ANTECEDENT to all history , and long glimmering through it as a holy tradition ...
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... understanding and acquirements in that mode and direction , in which I may be enabled to benefit the largest number possible of my fellow - creatures . NTECEDENT to all history , and long glimmering through it as finite period ...
... understanding and acquirements in that mode and direction , in which I may be enabled to benefit the largest number possible of my fellow - creatures . NTECEDENT to all history , and long glimmering through it as finite period ...
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... understanding and imagination . Actuated by this impulse , the writer wishes , in the following Essays , to convey not instruction merely , but fundamental instruction ; not so much to show my reader this or that fact , as to kindle his ...
... understanding and imagination . Actuated by this impulse , the writer wishes , in the following Essays , to convey not instruction merely , but fundamental instruction ; not so much to show my reader this or that fact , as to kindle his ...
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... understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair instance and a striking illustration . Like idle morning visitors , the brisk and breath- less periods hurry in and ...
... understandings to a deplorable imbecility : the fact you mention , and which I shall hereafter make use of , is a fair instance and a striking illustration . Like idle morning visitors , the brisk and breath- less periods hurry in and ...
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... understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justified on the principle of self- defence and by the law of fair retaliation ...
... understanding , yet the bitterness of personal crimination will resolve itself into naked assertion . We are , therefore , authorized by experience , and justified on the principle of self- defence and by the law of fair retaliation ...
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Page 307 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 215 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or starlight thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Page 8 - 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.
Page 14 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 273 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Page 8 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Page 307 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 215 - And not a voice was idle : with the din Meanwhile the precipices rang aloud. The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while the distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed ; while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Page 307 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Page 366 - SIX LECTURES ON THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT and the ancient Manuscripts which contain it. Chiefly addressed to those who do not read Greek. With facsimiles from MSS. &c. Crown 8vo. 6s. BOOK OF PSALMS ; a New Translation, with Introductions and Notes, Critical and Explanatory.