Transcendentalism: With Preludes on Current Events

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J.R. Osgood, 1878 - 305 páginas
"It is noted that the object of the Boston Monday Lectures is to present results of German, English, and American scholarship on the more important and difficult topics concerning the relation of religion and science. The lectures presented here on transcendentalism contain a discussion of the views of Theodore Parker. The following eleven lectures are presented: (1) Intuition, Instinct, Experiment, Syllogism, as Tests of Truth; (2) Transcendentalism in New England; (3) Theodore Parker's Absolute Religion; (4) Caricatured Definitions in Religious Science; (5) Theodore Parker on the Guilt of Sin; (6) Final Permanence of Moral Character; (7) Can a Perfect Being Permit Evil? (8) The Religion Required by the Nature of Things; (9) Theodore Parker on Communion with God as Personal; (10) The Trinity and Tritheism and (11) Fragmentariness of Outlook upon the Divine Nature"--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

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Página 230 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 153 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Página 296 - Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine— Here at least, where nature sickens, nothing.
Página 6 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 153 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 270 - I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Página 228 - O, THOU ETERNAL ONE ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight ; Thou only God ! There is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Mighty One Whom none can comprehend and none explore...
Página 153 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Página 267 - What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again, A little while, and ye shall see me : and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? We cannot tell what he saith.
Página 270 - Lord, are changed with the same image from glory to glory as by the Lord the Spirit.

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