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In order to answer these questions in the affirmative , I must have forgotten the
animal magnetists ; * the proselytes of Brothers , and of Joanna Southcote ; and
some thousand fanatics less original in their creeds , but not a whit more rational
in ...
In order to answer these questions in the affirmative , I must have forgotten the
animal magnetists ; * the proselytes of Brothers , and of Joanna Southcote ; and
some thousand fanatics less original in their creeds , but not a whit more rational
in ...
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... them there should be any liberty of the press ; and if this be answered in the
affirmative , what shall be declared abuses of that liberty , and made punishable
as such ; and in what way the general law shall be applied to each particular
case .
... them there should be any liberty of the press ; and if this be answered in the
affirmative , what shall be declared abuses of that liberty , and made punishable
as such ; and in what way the general law shall be applied to each particular
case .
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The Christian confines salvation to the believer in his own Vedas and Shasters .
Which is the more humane and philosophic creed of the two ? ” Let question
answer question . Self - complacent scoffer ! Whom meanest thou 94 THE
FRIEND .
The Christian confines salvation to the believer in his own Vedas and Shasters .
Which is the more humane and philosophic creed of the two ? ” Let question
answer question . Self - complacent scoffer ! Whom meanest thou 94 THE
FRIEND .
Page 95
... answer to him ,He hath showed thee , O man , what is good ; and what doth the
Lord require of thee , but to do justly , and to love mercy , and to walk humbly with
thy God ? * But I check myself . It is at once folly and profanation of truth , to ...
... answer to him ,He hath showed thee , O man , what is good ; and what doth the
Lord require of thee , but to do justly , and to love mercy , and to walk humbly with
thy God ? * But I check myself . It is at once folly and profanation of truth , to ...
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If it be said , that we should endeavor not so much to remove ignorance , as to
make the ignorant religious ; — religion herself , through her sacred oracles ,
answers for me , that all effective faith pre - supposes knowledge and individual ...
If it be said , that we should endeavor not so much to remove ignorance , as to
make the ignorant religious ; — religion herself , through her sacred oracles ,
answers for me , that all effective faith pre - supposes knowledge and individual ...
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Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 375 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 461 - 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 416 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...
Page 415 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
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 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 413 - 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 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 460 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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| Title | The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 2 The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, William Greenough Thayer Shedd |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Editors | William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1853 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2007 |
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