The Christian Teacher, Volume 1Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1839 - England |
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... Natural and scriptural theology should assist and strengthen each other ; and where should natural theology acquire or maintain any influence , except in the haunts and among the actual objects of Nature ? Every man , too , must be ...
... Natural and scriptural theology should assist and strengthen each other ; and where should natural theology acquire or maintain any influence , except in the haunts and among the actual objects of Nature ? Every man , too , must be ...
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... natural facts and appearances . Some of them may justly be ranked among the common - places of pulpit elo- quence ... Nature is an infinite field , from which Thought and Genius may gather perpetual novelties for the service and glory ...
... natural facts and appearances . Some of them may justly be ranked among the common - places of pulpit elo- quence ... Nature is an infinite field , from which Thought and Genius may gather perpetual novelties for the service and glory ...
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... Nature free ; I feel as if again a boy- A mountain life for me ! Fair Devon ! yet thy fields are green ; Thy fields are green and dear ; But can they match the glorious sheen Of all that's round me here ? I cannot shut my eyes to truth ...
... Nature free ; I feel as if again a boy- A mountain life for me ! Fair Devon ! yet thy fields are green ; Thy fields are green and dear ; But can they match the glorious sheen Of all that's round me here ? I cannot shut my eyes to truth ...
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... Nature . Over against us ran along a huge dark line of mountains , every moment assuming a hue of deeper and more spiritual purple , and seeming to dilate into more majestic vastness . No gleam of waters was to be caught from the broad ...
... Nature . Over against us ran along a huge dark line of mountains , every moment assuming a hue of deeper and more spiritual purple , and seeming to dilate into more majestic vastness . No gleam of waters was to be caught from the broad ...
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... Nature's heart , and in Affection's eye . Yes , might a wish avail , I'd choose my lot ( Not world - forgetting yet , nor world - forgot ) Where men might point me out as a new Druid , Wooing the sunset by the waves of Clwyd ! One ...
... Nature's heart , and in Affection's eye . Yes , might a wish avail , I'd choose my lot ( Not world - forgetting yet , nor world - forgot ) Where men might point me out as a new Druid , Wooing the sunset by the waves of Clwyd ! One ...
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Page 538 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say, " This thing 's to do," Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do 't.
Page 51 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying : — " The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.
Page 247 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Page 248 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss. Though winning near the goal — yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss; For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love!
Page 336 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging : to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Page 537 - Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records...
Page 179 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Page 248 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 247 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy...
Page 163 - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...