The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 3 |
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... of love and admiration to its own age . And there is one among the new emotions which belong to its entrance on the world - one - almost the noblest of all - in which this exaltation of the age is essentially The faith 12.
... of love and admiration to its own age . And there is one among the new emotions which belong to its entrance on the world - one - almost the noblest of all - in which this exaltation of the age is essentially The faith 12.
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... faith in the perpetual progres- mingled . sion of human nature towards perfection , gives birth to such lofty dreams , as secure to it the devout assent of imagination ; and it will be yet more grateful to a heart just opening to hope ...
... faith in the perpetual progres- mingled . sion of human nature towards perfection , gives birth to such lofty dreams , as secure to it the devout assent of imagination ; and it will be yet more grateful to a heart just opening to hope ...
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... faith and wisdom for his own . - How often , when under the impulses of those solemn hours , in which he has felt with clearer insight and deeper faith his sacred truths , he labours to win to his own belief those whom he loves , will ...
... faith and wisdom for his own . - How often , when under the impulses of those solemn hours , in which he has felt with clearer insight and deeper faith his sacred truths , he labours to win to his own belief those whom he loves , will ...
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... faith which fills his heart , the circles within which he would embrace all he loves -- would repose all his wishes and hopes , and enjoy- ments , is yet commensurate with his affections ? Even when the mind , strong in reason and just ...
... faith which fills his heart , the circles within which he would embrace all he loves -- would repose all his wishes and hopes , and enjoy- ments , is yet commensurate with his affections ? Even when the mind , strong in reason and just ...
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... faith , by an insight into a simple truth , namely , that it is not necessary , in order to satisfy the desires of our nature , or to reconcile us to the economy of providence , that there should be at all times a continuous advance in ...
... faith , by an insight into a simple truth , namely , that it is not necessary , in order to satisfy the desires of our nature , or to reconcile us to the economy of providence , that there should be at all times a continuous advance in ...
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Page 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
Page 243 - 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 endeavor Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Page 243 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 243 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 143 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 227 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 64 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Page 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 272 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infants' breath: And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 149 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...