Seeing and Being: And Other SermonsG.H. Ellis, 1893 - 234 páginas |
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... nature , he forgets man tormented and corrupted by greed , by base fear and envy ; it is here that he truly abides with his fellows in an elysium that his reason has created for itself and that GREAT HOPES FOR GREAT SOULS.
... nature , he forgets man tormented and corrupted by greed , by base fear and envy ; it is here that he truly abides with his fellows in an elysium that his reason has created for itself and that GREAT HOPES FOR GREAT SOULS.
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... natural than for me to find a text , or motto , in the Psalmist's question , “ What is man , that thou art mindful of ... Nature for two millenniums and half another ! True , in the King James translation it reads " but little lower than ...
... natural than for me to find a text , or motto , in the Psalmist's question , “ What is man , that thou art mindful of ... Nature for two millenniums and half another ! True , in the King James translation it reads " but little lower than ...
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... nature was from God than that any book was the expression of his will , and attending to his rational nature for the voice of truth as to no book whatever , clearly thought out and bravely published the Dignity of Human Nature , is not ...
... nature was from God than that any book was the expression of his will , and attending to his rational nature for the voice of truth as to no book whatever , clearly thought out and bravely published the Dignity of Human Nature , is not ...
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... nature ; he has reduced its baseness to its lowest terms . But what good reason is there for setting up the opinions of Saint Paul as a standard of belief for men who are alive when he has been full eighteen centuries dead ? There is ...
... nature ; he has reduced its baseness to its lowest terms . But what good reason is there for setting up the opinions of Saint Paul as a standard of belief for men who are alive when he has been full eighteen centuries dead ? There is ...
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... Nature ; but , as time went on , Channing perceived that his idea of humanity was so large that his idea of Jesus had in it all the sky - room that it wanted in which to beat its tireless pinions without mete or bound . The " Not a mere ...
... Nature ; but , as time went on , Channing perceived that his idea of humanity was so large that his idea of Jesus had in it all the sky - room that it wanted in which to beat its tireless pinions without mete or bound . The " Not a mere ...
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Página 114 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Página 76 - DAYS. DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Página 38 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Página 67 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 40 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 92 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 95 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 64 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 115 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see, Even in the motions of the Storm, Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 73 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.