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... beauty 148 CHAPTER IX . Religion defaced by human inventions 149 Author's opinions on the Earl of Shaftesbury's circumscription of the hours of labour 150 Why is man a ruin ? 151 Morbid piety reigns triumphant 152 Genius a heavenly ...
... beauty 148 CHAPTER IX . Religion defaced by human inventions 149 Author's opinions on the Earl of Shaftesbury's circumscription of the hours of labour 150 Why is man a ruin ? 151 Morbid piety reigns triumphant 152 Genius a heavenly ...
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... beauty 294 298 Montalembert's remarks 299 Fashion : Female education 300 Evils of a sectarian spirit .. 304 Guizot - his zeal , & c . : no one sleeps while he speaks 307 The pedigree of superstition traced 308 Greatest stumbling ...
... beauty 294 298 Montalembert's remarks 299 Fashion : Female education 300 Evils of a sectarian spirit .. 304 Guizot - his zeal , & c . : no one sleeps while he speaks 307 The pedigree of superstition traced 308 Greatest stumbling ...
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... beauty , varies its fashions , and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds ; and he that recals the attention of man- kind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , giving to the minds of speculative ...
... beauty , varies its fashions , and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds ; and he that recals the attention of man- kind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , giving to the minds of speculative ...
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... beauty by their flashing gleams ; The universe has limits still , -but thou And thy creations , they are infinite , And make themselves an eternity , Even in this germ of being . Wrapt in them , As in a panoply of living light , We ...
... beauty by their flashing gleams ; The universe has limits still , -but thou And thy creations , they are infinite , And make themselves an eternity , Even in this germ of being . Wrapt in them , As in a panoply of living light , We ...
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... beauty bloom around , will never be developed until selfishness , im- purity , and excess are removed ; the ploughing , harrowing , and watering , must precede the sowing of the good seed , before the beams of the sun can penetrate the ...
... beauty bloom around , will never be developed until selfishness , im- purity , and excess are removed ; the ploughing , harrowing , and watering , must precede the sowing of the good seed , before the beams of the sun can penetrate the ...
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Page 22 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 410 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 195 - And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Page 55 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 401 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 28 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 221 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 360 - Gray ! And warm thy old heart with a glass." "Nay, but credit I've none, And my money's all gone ; Then say how may that come to pass ? "Well-a-day !" " Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer Gray ! And knock at the jolly priest's door.
Page 120 - And prais'd be rashness for it. —Let us know. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.
Page 124 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ...