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... the ardent , and the fearless into the gulph of error ; and thence , from spurning human control , to deny the existence of the Being whose B laws they have violated , and whose precepts they consider INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE . xiii.
... the ardent , and the fearless into the gulph of error ; and thence , from spurning human control , to deny the existence of the Being whose B laws they have violated , and whose precepts they consider INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE . xiii.
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Young infidel. laws they have violated , and whose precepts they consider as cruel and unnecessary restraints upon the free - agency of a rational being : an individual , whose unfixed principles had yielded to the blandish- ments of ...
Young infidel. laws they have violated , and whose precepts they consider as cruel and unnecessary restraints upon the free - agency of a rational being : an individual , whose unfixed principles had yielded to the blandish- ments of ...
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... solemn promises she had made , the vows she had pledged in the sight of heaven , —and not in her view less irrevocable than if they had been sanctioned by her country's laws . In full 12 THE YOUNG INFIDEL . LETTER II. ...
... solemn promises she had made , the vows she had pledged in the sight of heaven , —and not in her view less irrevocable than if they had been sanctioned by her country's laws . In full 12 THE YOUNG INFIDEL . LETTER II. ...
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Young infidel. had been sanctioned by her country's laws . In full force do those vows still , in willing bondage , bind my soul ; but their public and solemn ratification must be suspended till I am assured they may be so ... laws. ...
Young infidel. had been sanctioned by her country's laws . In full force do those vows still , in willing bondage , bind my soul ; but their public and solemn ratification must be suspended till I am assured they may be so ... laws. ...
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... law can take no cognizance , even to our very thoughts and motives . By presenting to our mental view an omniscient and omnipresent Deity , Re- ligion and conscience exercise a quiet habitual authority over men ; and , in fact , their ...
... law can take no cognizance , even to our very thoughts and motives . By presenting to our mental view an omniscient and omnipresent Deity , Re- ligion and conscience exercise a quiet habitual authority over men ; and , in fact , their ...
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Página 107 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all, that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve...
Página 49 - Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Página 44 - 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; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Página 107 - Philosophy baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Página 62 - By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Página 107 - A loud hosanna sent from all thy works, Which he that hears it with a shout repeats, And adds his rapture to the general praise. In that blest moment, Nature, throwing wide Her veil opaque, discloses with a smile The Author of her beauties, who, retired Behind His own creation, works unseen By the impure, and hears His power denied.
Página 112 - Heart-merit wanting, mount we ne'er so high, Our height is but the gibbet of our name. A celebrated wretch when I behold, When I behold a genius bright and base, Of towering talents and terrestrial aims, Methinks I see, as thrown from her high sphere, The glorious fragments of a soul immortal, With rubbish mixed, and glittering in the dust...
Página 122 - Bacon, the great confidant of nature, fraught with all the learning of the past, and almost prescient of the future, yet too wise not to know his weakness, and too philosophic not to feel his ignorance. I...
Página 127 - Read and revere the sacred page ; a page Where triumphs immortality ,. a page Which not the whole creation could produce ; Which not the conflagration shall destroy ; Tis printed in the mind of gods for ever, In nature's ruins not one letter lost.
Página 110 - Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.