The Coming Terror and Other Essays and LettersUnited States Book Company, 1891 - 385 sidor The coming terror: a dialogue between Alienatys, a provincial, and Urbanus, a cockney.- Are men born free and equal?- A controversy on descending into hell: a protest against over-legislation in matters literary.- The modern young man as a critic.- Is chivalry still possible?- Imperial cock-neydom, - Is the marriage contract eternal?- Flotsam and jetsam.- Final words. |
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The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters Robert Williams Buchanan Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1891 |
The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters Robert Williams Buchanan Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1891 |
The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters Robert Williams Buchanan Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1891 |
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Sida 115 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Sida 115 - Banish all objects of lust, shut up all youth into the severest discipline that can be exercised in any hermitage, ye cannot make them chaste, that came not thither so : such great care and wisdom is required to the right managing of this point.
Sida 91 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Sida 128 - ... true and saving religion consists in the inward persuasion of the mind, without which nothing can be acceptable to God. And such is the nature of the understanding that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force.
Sida 127 - It is only light and evidence that can work a change in men's opinions; and that light can in no manner proceed from corporal sufferings, or any other outward penalties.
Sida 115 - Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Sida 67 - There is a notion, always more or less prevalent and just now vociferously expressed, that all social suffering is removable, and that it is the duty of somebody or other to remove it. Both these beliefs are false.
Sida 75 - For if one portion of the earth's surface may justly become the possession of an individual, and may be held by him for his sole use and benefit, as a thing to which he has an exclusive right, then other portions of the earth's surface may be so held ; and eventually the whole of the earth's surface may be so held; and our planet may thus lapse altogether into private hands.
Sida 91 - Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain for ever; Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be...
Sida 285 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another cpmfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.