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... fabricate arms of iniquity from the words of truth - a fact remarked even by poets , saying , In religion What damned error , but some sober brow Will bless it , and approve it with a text , Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ?
... fabricate arms of iniquity from the words of truth - a fact remarked even by poets , saying , In religion What damned error , but some sober brow Will bless it , and approve it with a text , Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ?
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according admirable ages of faith ancient angels appeared asked Augustin authority beauty beginning behold believe blessed body called Catholic cause century Christ Christian church clean of heart continues darkness death desire divine doctrine earth effect error existence expressed eyes fact Fathers fear follow give grace ground hand hear holy Hugo Hugo of St human ignorance intelligence Italy John kind king knowledge learned less letters light living Lord magic manner middle ages mind mystic nature never object observes opinion Paris pass perfect persons philosophy Plato present pure reason received regard relation religion remained remarks respecting says scholastic Scriptures seek seems seen sense soul speak spirit things Thomas thought tion true truth understand universal Victor vision whole wisdom wish writings
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Página 320 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 365 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 335 - ... wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 321 - The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips : and all of great Or good or lovely which the sacred past In truth or fable consecrates he felt And knew.
Página 460 - For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood ; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
Página 478 - ANOTHER SPIRIT. Yet, see, he mastereth himself, and makes His torture tributary to his will. Had he been one of us, he would have made An awful spirit.
Página 59 - Nam et si ambulavero in medio umbrae mortis, non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es.
Página 342 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 349 - Some eminent in virtue shall start up, Even in perversest time : The truths of their pure lips, that never die, Shall bind the scorpion falsehood with a wreath Of ever-living flame, Until the monster sting itself to death. How sweet a scene will earth become ! Of purest spirits, a pure dwelling-place, Symphonious with the planetary spheres, When man, with changeless nature coalescing, Will undertake regeneration's work...
Página 518 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ... Livro 8 de Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith, Kenelm Henry Digby |
| Autor | Kenelm Henry Digby |
| Editora | J. Booker, 1837 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 24 Ago 2006 |
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