Guesses at TruthMacmillan and Company, 1889 - Всего страниц: 576 |
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... Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue : and , as is the case with other stopgaps , it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them , than through any other part of the fence . A mother should desire to give her ...
... Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue : and , as is the case with other stopgaps , it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them , than through any other part of the fence . A mother should desire to give her ...
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... moral sensitiveness was probably as acute as his physical sensitiveness is now ; so that an evil action , from its irreconcilableness with his nature , would have inflicted as much pain on the mind , as a blow causes to the body . By ...
... moral sensitiveness was probably as acute as his physical sensitiveness is now ; so that an evil action , from its irreconcilableness with his nature , would have inflicted as much pain on the mind , as a blow causes to the body . By ...
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... women . The neglect of this momentous con- sideration gives us a race of moral hermaphrodites . A. l'oetry is to philosophy what the sabbath is to the 10 GUESSES AT TRUTH . It was a practice worthy of our worthy ancestors, ...
... women . The neglect of this momentous con- sideration gives us a race of moral hermaphrodites . A. l'oetry is to philosophy what the sabbath is to the 10 GUESSES AT TRUTH . It was a practice worthy of our worthy ancestors, ...
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... moral world . Their borrowed light is but a dimmer substitute for the life - giving rays of religion ; re- placing those rays , when hidden or obscured , and evidencing their existence , when they are unseen in the heavens . To exclaim ...
... moral world . Their borrowed light is but a dimmer substitute for the life - giving rays of religion ; re- placing those rays , when hidden or obscured , and evidencing their existence , when they are unseen in the heavens . To exclaim ...
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... moral qualities : the bright are sometimes poisonous ; but , I believe , never the sweet . Picturesqueness is that quality in objects which fits them for making a good picture ; and it refers to the appearances of things in form and ...
... moral qualities : the bright are sometimes poisonous ; but , I believe , never the sweet . Picturesqueness is that quality in objects which fits them for making a good picture ; and it refers to the appearances of things in form and ...
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Стр. 420 - Divinity of hell! When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Стр. 255 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Стр. 239 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Стр. 27 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Стр. 352 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 215 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 255 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Стр. 84 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 376 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Стр. 456 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?