Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking, Tema 71Longmans, Green and Company, 1873 - 362 páginas |
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... perhaps taken in law to assert nothing more than a general respect for their authors , such as he might feel for Dante or Socrates ; if , however , his action helps to strengthen ninety - nine people out of a hundred in the belief ...
... perhaps taken in law to assert nothing more than a general respect for their authors , such as he might feel for Dante or Socrates ; if , however , his action helps to strengthen ninety - nine people out of a hundred in the belief ...
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... perhaps less startling ; but it raises a similar difficulty . He quotes from Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's defence of Dr. Rowland Williams a passage summing up the views taken by various eminent divines of the English Church . Tillotson , for ...
... perhaps less startling ; but it raises a similar difficulty . He quotes from Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's defence of Dr. Rowland Williams a passage summing up the views taken by various eminent divines of the English Church . Tillotson , for ...
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... atrocities , which we should describe as they deserved if committed by Mahommedans or Mormons , but to which we have become familiarised by long association . All this and more than this might perhaps 28 FREETHINKING AND PLAINSPEAKING .
... atrocities , which we should describe as they deserved if committed by Mahommedans or Mormons , but to which we have become familiarised by long association . All this and more than this might perhaps 28 FREETHINKING AND PLAINSPEAKING .
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Leslie Stephen. association . All this and more than this might perhaps be said without any breach of faith , so far as the tests imposed upon the clergy are concerned . But then would any sensible man holding such opinions get up and ...
Leslie Stephen. association . All this and more than this might perhaps be said without any breach of faith , so far as the tests imposed upon the clergy are concerned . But then would any sensible man holding such opinions get up and ...
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... perhaps a sufficient number of loopholes have been made by assiduous labourers of infinite skill in that branch of industry . Indeed one has a certain tenderness for them as relics of a time when men could express their convictions ...
... perhaps a sufficient number of loopholes have been made by assiduous labourers of infinite skill in that branch of industry . Indeed one has a certain tenderness for them as relics of a time when men could express their convictions ...
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Página 61 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Página 291 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 291 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 121 - True religion undoubtedly leads us to do to others as we would that they should do to us.
Página 23 - Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man ; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.
Página 142 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 258 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Página 250 - ... what we call evil in this world, moral as well as natural, is the grand principle that makes us sociable creatures...
Página 33 - And friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew; And some had visions out of golden youth, And some beheld the faces of old ghosts Look in upon the battle...
Página 231 - There is no more of rectitude, piety, or sanctity in a creature thus reformed, than there is meekness or gentleness in a tiger strongly chained, or innocence and sobriety in a monkey under the discipline of the whip.