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It is frankly admitted , that this notice of Charles Follen is written in a tone of
panegyric which his modest spirit may disapprove ; but though there is a form of
virtue , yet larger and more beautiful than that he wore , we yet calmly think he
was a ...
It is frankly admitted , that this notice of Charles Follen is written in a tone of
panegyric which his modest spirit may disapprove ; but though there is a form of
virtue , yet larger and more beautiful than that he wore , we yet calmly think he
was a ...
Sida 197
... nor outward objects ever tempt , where knowledge shall pour itself into the
passive mind , and , in a word , all virtue and all attainment come with a wish ,
and rest and repose make up the days and years of such a being ; and then
compare a ...
... nor outward objects ever tempt , where knowledge shall pour itself into the
passive mind , and , in a word , all virtue and all attainment come with a wish ,
and rest and repose make up the days and years of such a being ; and then
compare a ...
Sida 199
In truth , one might say that in the proportion that holiness is essential , in that
very proportion is worship also ; and especially that form of worship which we
denominate prayer , so helpful is it as a means of virtue . Prayer is the intercourse
...
In truth , one might say that in the proportion that holiness is essential , in that
very proportion is worship also ; and especially that form of worship which we
denominate prayer , so helpful is it as a means of virtue . Prayer is the intercourse
...
Sida 256
The light of genuine virtue beams in its own peculiar splendor , even while spots
appear upon it ; and it shines far differently from the faint , obscured lustre of the
virtue that springs from native temperament , or from mere habit . Even if a tree ...
The light of genuine virtue beams in its own peculiar splendor , even while spots
appear upon it ; and it shines far differently from the faint , obscured lustre of the
virtue that springs from native temperament , or from mere habit . Even if a tree ...
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The grand and only objection to the prevailing views of religion is , ihat they do
not promote virtue . It is to elevate the name of religion , not to exalt the dignity of
virtue , that this union is declared . Virtue in her real character cannot be
magnified ...
The grand and only objection to the prevailing views of religion is , ihat they do
not promote virtue . It is to elevate the name of religion , not to exalt the dignity of
virtue , that this union is declared . Virtue in her real character cannot be
magnified ...
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Sida 72 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Sida 244 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Sida 242 - Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof.
Sida 244 - I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Sida 242 - And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain. Turn thee, turn thee on thy pillow: get thee to thy rest again. Nay, but Nature brings thee solace; for a tender voice will cry.
Sida 194 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Sida 192 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Sida 120 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Sida 240 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's • breast ; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Sida 192 - Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand ; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.