The American Review, and Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 1Saxton and Miles, 1843 - 588 pages |
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... nature and destiny . It will cease to dwell upon the outward and conventional , and direct itself to that which is inward , spiritual , unchangingly , desirable . It will explore those depths in the immaterial nature of man where lie ...
... nature and destiny . It will cease to dwell upon the outward and conventional , and direct itself to that which is inward , spiritual , unchangingly , desirable . It will explore those depths in the immaterial nature of man where lie ...
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... nature was in ruins , and that a more than Promethean heat was needed to relumine , and a more than mortal philosophy to reinstruct , if this nature is to be reinstated in its primeval power to dig- nity . Their defects in these ...
... nature was in ruins , and that a more than Promethean heat was needed to relumine , and a more than mortal philosophy to reinstruct , if this nature is to be reinstated in its primeval power to dig- nity . Their defects in these ...
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... nature , and points in many a hint , which his situation forbade him to follow out himself , the road of truth to a later generation . Cousin is translating or has translated his works for the French ; the meditative mind of Germany is ...
... nature , and points in many a hint , which his situation forbade him to follow out himself , the road of truth to a later generation . Cousin is translating or has translated his works for the French ; the meditative mind of Germany is ...
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... nature that we seek to rest admitted truths upon some deep and common principles . Nor does religion refuse support from the efforts of reason , for though it reveals all needful truth , it does not demon- strate congeniality with human ...
... nature that we seek to rest admitted truths upon some deep and common principles . Nor does religion refuse support from the efforts of reason , for though it reveals all needful truth , it does not demon- strate congeniality with human ...
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... nature of things that it is , therefore , eternal and immutable - that it is not constituted even by the divine will ; though ac- curately according with it - that it is lovely for its own sake - that it is man's highest dignity and his ...
... nature of things that it is , therefore , eternal and immutable - that it is not constituted even by the divine will ; though ac- curately according with it - that it is lovely for its own sake - that it is man's highest dignity and his ...
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Page 432 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Page 41 - There is no art delivered unto mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object, without which they could not consist and on which they so depend as they become actors and players, as it were, of what nature will have set forth.
Page 432 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 511 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 43 - I say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description, which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 130 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 73 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 42 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature...
Page 75 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 44 - Grecians' divinity ; to believe, with Bembus, that they were first bringersin of all civility; to believe, with Scaliger, that no philosopher's precepts can sooner make you an honest man than the reading of Virgil; to believe, with Clauserus, the translator of Cornutus...