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... one that can trifle like Shakspeare , and teach the truest philoso- phy , even when he seems to trifle most . The influence V of literature on youthful minds is immense ; and iv Religion-Puzzling-irons and Chandeliers,
... one that can trifle like Shakspeare , and teach the truest philoso- phy , even when he seems to trifle most . The influence V of literature on youthful minds is immense ; and iv Religion-Puzzling-irons and Chandeliers,
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... Religion - Puzzling - irons and Chandeliers , 17 24 · 35 V. Law , a coarse conception , derived from material objects , 43 • VI . Spiritual Law , a refined idea , derived from the intercourse of spirit with spirit , VII . A Fop on a ...
... Religion - Puzzling - irons and Chandeliers , 17 24 · 35 V. Law , a coarse conception , derived from material objects , 43 • VI . Spiritual Law , a refined idea , derived from the intercourse of spirit with spirit , VII . A Fop on a ...
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... religion , the best gift of God ; the last hope of forlorn and fallen man . Religion is such an element in Puritanism , that no one , who assumes that name , can possibly neglect it . A Puritan without religion , would be a rose without ...
... religion , the best gift of God ; the last hope of forlorn and fallen man . Religion is such an element in Puritanism , that no one , who assumes that name , can possibly neglect it . A Puritan without religion , would be a rose without ...
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... religion consisted in a deep reverence for God and all his institutions ; a hearty love for their fellow- creatures ; a humility which controlled the temper ; and a faith , which , amidst all its sublime abstractions , governed the life ...
... religion consisted in a deep reverence for God and all his institutions ; a hearty love for their fellow- creatures ; a humility which controlled the temper ; and a faith , which , amidst all its sublime abstractions , governed the life ...
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... religion so shadowy , as that scarce two agree in describing its nature ; and yet so substantial , as to last for ages , amidst the perishing wreck of superstition and the changing manners of men . It was foretold that Christ should be ...
... religion so shadowy , as that scarce two agree in describing its nature ; and yet so substantial , as to last for ages , amidst the perishing wreck of superstition and the changing manners of men . It was foretold that Christ should be ...
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Página 208 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Página 106 - The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers...
Página 197 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 197 - Yond" Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 133 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 183 - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick...
Página 242 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line.
Página 229 - Ask we what makes one keep, and one bestow? That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow, Bids seed-time, harvest, equal course maintain, Through reconciled extremes of drought and rain. Builds life on death, on change duration founds, And gives the eternal wheels to know their rounds.
Página 9 - But if a stone the gentle sea divide, Swift ruffling circles curl on every side, And glimmering fragments of a broken sun, Banks, trees, and skies, in thick disorder run.
Página 183 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.