Guesses at TruthMacmillan, 1867 - 576 páginas |
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... tion and thought , as the purifiers and regenerators of poetry and philosophy . It was a great aim ; and greatly have you both wrought for its accomplishment . Many , among those who are now England's best hope and stay , will respond ...
... tion and thought , as the purifiers and regenerators of poetry and philosophy . It was a great aim ; and greatly have you both wrought for its accomplishment . Many , among those who are now England's best hope and stay , will respond ...
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... February 18th in the following year he died at Rome . The history of Augustus Hare's influence and reputa- tion stands in some respects parallel to that of Frederick b Robertson . Both were known , admired , loved by.
... February 18th in the following year he died at Rome . The history of Augustus Hare's influence and reputa- tion stands in some respects parallel to that of Frederick b Robertson . Both were known , admired , loved by.
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... tion have been wanting , to the old truths , and maintain- ing , with unshaken confidence to the end , what some of them have been led to disparage or deny . Those who are not yet far enough removed in time or affection to judge with ...
... tion have been wanting , to the old truths , and maintain- ing , with unshaken confidence to the end , what some of them have been led to disparage or deny . Those who are not yet far enough removed in time or affection to judge with ...
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... tion , or of assimilation , not of self - nurture ; for then a steam - engine over a coalpit might be made to live . Philosophy , like everything else , in a Christian nation should be Christian . We throw away the better half of our ...
... tion , or of assimilation , not of self - nurture ; for then a steam - engine over a coalpit might be made to live . Philosophy , like everything else , in a Christian nation should be Christian . We throw away the better half of our ...
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... tion , more evidently to declare His immediate working , and to abase all human wisdom or knowledge , yet never- theless that counsel of His was no sooner performed , but in the next vicissitude and succession He did send His divine ...
... tion , more evidently to declare His immediate working , and to abase all human wisdom or knowledge , yet never- theless that counsel of His was no sooner performed , but in the next vicissitude and succession He did send His divine ...
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admiration beauty become better blessed body called character Christian Church Cicero Coleridge deemed Demosthenes Diocletian discern duty earth effect England English epic poetry errour evil expression eyes faith fancy feelings former genius give Goethe Greece Greek ground hand heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea Iliad imagination individual instance intellectual Italy Julius Charles Hare knowledge labour language Laodamia least less light living look man's mankind manner means Medea merely Milton mind modern moral nation never object ochlocracy outward passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy Plato poem poet poetry principle racter reason reflexion regard religion Roman Rome seems seldom Sermons Shakspeare shew sight Socrates sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure Tacitus things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth understanding unity utterance whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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Página 251 - 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!
Página 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Página 211 - 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.
Página 372 - ... 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...
Página 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Página 484 - 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?
Página 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...