The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, Volumen6Reeves and Turner, 1880 |
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... mankind were exempt from suffer- ing ; that they enjoyed a vigorous youth , and that death , when at length it came , approached like sleep , and gently closed their eyes . Again , so general was this opinion , that Horace , a poet of ...
... mankind were exempt from suffer- ing ; that they enjoyed a vigorous youth , and that death , when at length it came , approached like sleep , and gently closed their eyes . Again , so general was this opinion , that Horace , a poet of ...
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... mankind will feel a preference towards a long and tranquil , contrasted with a short and painful life . On the average , out of sixty persons , four die in three years . In ' April 1814 , a statement will be given , that sixty persons ...
... mankind will feel a preference towards a long and tranquil , contrasted with a short and painful life . On the average , out of sixty persons , four die in three years . In ' April 1814 , a statement will be given , that sixty persons ...
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... mankind , but which we are taught by Christianity to consider as splendid and delusive vices . I know not why a Theist should feel himself more inclined to distrust the historians of Jesus Christ , than those of Alexander the Great ...
... mankind , but which we are taught by Christianity to consider as splendid and delusive vices . I know not why a Theist should feel himself more inclined to distrust the historians of Jesus Christ , than those of Alexander the Great ...
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... mankind into the labyrinth of a deadlier superstition ? Surely the Deity has not created man immortal , and left him for ever in ignorance of his glorious destination . If the Christian Religion is false , I see not upon what foun ...
... mankind into the labyrinth of a deadlier superstition ? Surely the Deity has not created man immortal , and left him for ever in ignorance of his glorious destination . If the Christian Religion is false , I see not upon what foun ...
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... mankind a benefit which it was in his power to confer . That he suffered his creatures to remain in ignorance of truths essential to their happiness and salva- tion . That during the lapse of innumerable ages every individual of the ...
... mankind a benefit which it was in his power to confer . That he suffered his creatures to remain in ignorance of truths essential to their happiness and salva- tion . That during the lapse of innumerable ages every individual of the ...
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Página 46 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Página 46 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Página 202 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — -that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death...
Página 51 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Página 202 - One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness, and now rest Where that or thou art no unbidden guest, In the still cave of the witch Poesy, Seeking among the shadows that pass by Ghosts of all things that are...
Página 54 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Página 55 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous 106 Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between , the temple and the altar.
Página 201 - The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters...
Página 46 - And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Página 260 - The shocking absurdities of the popular philosophy of mind and matter, its fatal consequences in morals, and their violent dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It allows its disciples to talk, and dispenses them from thinking. But I was discontented with such a view of things as it afforded ; man is a being of high aspirations, ' looking both before and after...