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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... reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual acquisition of knowledge and art , -an unceasing progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues ...
... reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual acquisition of knowledge and art , -an unceasing progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues ...
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... itself in its own place against the weight of general opinion ; -and there may be too indiscriminate , too undisci- plined a sympathy with others , which by the mere infection of feeling will subdue the reason . -There 18.
... itself in its own place against the weight of general opinion ; -and there may be too indiscriminate , too undisci- plined a sympathy with others , which by the mere infection of feeling will subdue the reason . -There 18.
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... reason . -There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks , with sadness , if his faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast : -a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many ...
... reason . -There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks , with sadness , if his faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast : -a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many ...
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... reason and just feeling united , and relying on its strength , has attached itself to Truth , how much is there in the course and accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are pleasures deemed ...
... reason and just feeling united , and relying on its strength , has attached itself to Truth , how much is there in the course and accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are pleasures deemed ...
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... reason and eloquence of one man , this complete control over the minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times . For thus what- ever false opinion of pre - eminence is attached to the Age ...
... reason and eloquence of one man , this complete control over the minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times . For thus what- ever false opinion of pre - eminence is attached to the Age ...
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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...