The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1837 |
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... authority of acknowledged truth . There may be intellectual indolence ; an indisposition in the mind to the effort of combining the ideas it actually possesses , and bringing.into distinct form the knowledge , which in its elements is ...
... authority of acknowledged truth . There may be intellectual indolence ; an indisposition in the mind to the effort of combining the ideas it actually possesses , and bringing.into distinct form the knowledge , which in its elements is ...
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... authority he may acknowledge in the instructions of his master , strikes , with inevitable force , at his veneration for the opinions and characters of his own times . And finally there will be gathered round a living teacher , who ...
... authority he may acknowledge in the instructions of his master , strikes , with inevitable force , at his veneration for the opinions and characters of his own times . And finally there will be gathered round a living teacher , who ...
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... authority , this standing in its full strength , and he singly and nakedly , than fighting many battles by force of arms , and gaining them all . I have no life but truth ; and if truth be advanced by my suffering , then my life also ...
... authority , this standing in its full strength , and he singly and nakedly , than fighting many battles by force of arms , and gaining them all . I have no life but truth ; and if truth be advanced by my suffering , then my life also ...
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... authority , naked , a prisoner , destitute of all friends and helps , wholly at the disposal of others , tied and bound too with all obligations that a parliament can imagine to hold him , should yet be such a terror to you , and fright ...
... authority , naked , a prisoner , destitute of all friends and helps , wholly at the disposal of others , tied and bound too with all obligations that a parliament can imagine to hold him , should yet be such a terror to you , and fright ...
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... See Wesley's Journal for proofs . But we have the highest possible authority , that of Scripture itself , to justify us in putting the question , -whether miracles can , of themselves , work a true conviction 82 THE FRIEND .
... See Wesley's Journal for proofs . But we have the highest possible authority , that of Scripture itself , to justify us in putting the question , -whether miracles can , of themselves , work a true conviction 82 THE FRIEND .
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admiration affirm Antinomianism appear Aristotle Ball's battle of Marengo believe called cause character circumstances common contemplation conviction derived divine doctrine duty effect equally ESSAY existence experience fact faith feelings former French Friend genius ground habit hath heart HERACLIT honor hope human idea imagination influence instance instinct intel intellectual interest island knowledge labours latter least less likewise living Lord Bacon Lord Nelson Malta Maltese mankind means ment method mind Minorca moral nation nature necessity never objects once opinion original outward particular passions persons phænomena phænomenon philosophy Plato pleasure poet political Port Mahon possess present principles Protagoras purpose RABBI ASSI racter readers reason recollection relations religion scarcely sense sion Sir Alexander Ball sophism soul spirit stable theory things thou thought tion true truth understanding Valetta virtue whole wisdom words youth δὲ καὶ
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Página 198 - 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...
Página 121 - 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. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
Página 119 - 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?
Página 197 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Página 253 - 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...
Página 142 - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
Página 184 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 197 - 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
Página 121 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Página 247 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...