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... imagination , and is so obviously suggested by the clear gradations of living Nature , that our Ideal Organic Scale has been for ages past a subject of speculation . I profess not to trace its history ; but Dr. Johnson tells us that it ...
... imagination , and is so obviously suggested by the clear gradations of living Nature , that our Ideal Organic Scale has been for ages past a subject of speculation . I profess not to trace its history ; but Dr. Johnson tells us that it ...
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... imagination or feeling seems to shine , consort with the angelic amenities , the transporting assur- ances of the life to come . For this , let us be well assured , is not as some inquisition torture - chamber , reformatory hulk , or ...
... imagination or feeling seems to shine , consort with the angelic amenities , the transporting assur- ances of the life to come . For this , let us be well assured , is not as some inquisition torture - chamber , reformatory hulk , or ...
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... imagination and truly poetic art , and I read the effusion as his view of the interior career of man . EXCELSIOR , starting from that sublime point of departure wherein the human soul was placed by the Almighty , paulo minus ab angelis ...
... imagination and truly poetic art , and I read the effusion as his view of the interior career of man . EXCELSIOR , starting from that sublime point of departure wherein the human soul was placed by the Almighty , paulo minus ab angelis ...
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... imagination , and that at last moves the affections . And if these little impulses set the great wheels of devotion at work , the largeness and height of that shall not be at all prejudiced by the smallness of its occasion . If the fire ...
... imagination , and that at last moves the affections . And if these little impulses set the great wheels of devotion at work , the largeness and height of that shall not be at all prejudiced by the smallness of its occasion . If the fire ...
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... imagination of the observers . They reached this conclusion by examining two somnambules only . Still , the Pre- sident of the Academy , on their first Report , observed on the conclusions of the second Report , that " the negative ...
... imagination of the observers . They reached this conclusion by examining two somnambules only . Still , the Pre- sident of the Academy , on their first Report , observed on the conclusions of the second Report , that " the negative ...
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Page 111 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning?
Page 222 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 215 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 138 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 117 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 5 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Page 54 - Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book : worship God.
Page 195 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 86 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 110 - ... that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires.