On Peace and HappinessMacmillan, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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... existence would be im- possible ; without conscience life would be intolerable . The one is necessary for the body , the other for the soul . Science has done more for man than magicians ever imagined . Chateaubriand unjustly and ...
... existence would be im- possible ; without conscience life would be intolerable . The one is necessary for the body , the other for the soul . Science has done more for man than magicians ever imagined . Chateaubriand unjustly and ...
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... su- preme objects of existence - the promotion of the hap- piness of others , and the improvement of their own soul . * “ Your leisure is charged with a great business . ” CHAPTER II . THE BODY . THE feeding of the 3 * ON HAPPINESS . 35.
... su- preme objects of existence - the promotion of the hap- piness of others , and the improvement of their own soul . * “ Your leisure is charged with a great business . ” CHAPTER II . THE BODY . THE feeding of the 3 * ON HAPPINESS . 35.
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... existence of memory is so familiar that we do not realise what a marvel it is . In ne sense even the most ignorant of us have an almost inexhaustible stock of knowledge . What innumerable facts are stored 40 ON PEACE AND HAPPINESS .
... existence of memory is so familiar that we do not realise what a marvel it is . In ne sense even the most ignorant of us have an almost inexhaustible stock of knowledge . What innumerable facts are stored 40 ON PEACE AND HAPPINESS .
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... existence , and raise itself altogether from earth to heaven . Yet we may do much , and if we do our best we may hope that we shall be , in the noble words of Milton : " Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue ...
... existence , and raise itself altogether from earth to heaven . Yet we may do much , and if we do our best we may hope that we shall be , in the noble words of Milton : " Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue ...
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... existence ; to it we owe our knowledge of bygone ages , and the very idea of progress in those to come . Renan has described the last as a most amusing century . I should rather have described it as most interesting , full of unexpected ...
... existence ; to it we owe our knowledge of bygone ages , and the very idea of progress in those to come . Renan has described the last as a most amusing century . I should rather have described it as most interesting , full of unexpected ...
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Página 250 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Página 254 - But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 288 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing ; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Página 282 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Página 191 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 84 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 52 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 89 - Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun : because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Página 238 - Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee...
Página 58 - But that the dread of something after death — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...