The Story of William and Lucy SmithGeorge Spring Merriam Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 - 666 páginas |
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... perfect , and He requires of us , His rational creatures , what poor attempts at perfection we can make . After some interval of silence , a man in spotless black coat and white neckcloth rises from the deal pulpit opposite ; a square ...
... perfect , and He requires of us , His rational creatures , what poor attempts at perfection we can make . After some interval of silence , a man in spotless black coat and white neckcloth rises from the deal pulpit opposite ; a square ...
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... perfect harmony with the truly blessed reason . He would as soon have thought of proclaiming himself a lunatic in the public streets , and avowing a preference for a slight shade of insanity . Such distinc- tion we cannot help noticing ...
... perfect harmony with the truly blessed reason . He would as soon have thought of proclaiming himself a lunatic in the public streets , and avowing a preference for a slight shade of insanity . Such distinc- tion we cannot help noticing ...
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... remonstrance , with her son's perfect liberty . I ex- tract a passage of his ( written in 1847 ) which is evi- dently the expression of a personal experience . The student's lamp was burning ; how calm , how MORNING . 17.
... remonstrance , with her son's perfect liberty . I ex- tract a passage of his ( written in 1847 ) which is evi- dently the expression of a personal experience . The student's lamp was burning ; how calm , how MORNING . 17.
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... perfect retirement . The one half of society requires that you respect its faith , the other half that you respect its hypocrisy . - - ... Such an one , when I knew him , was Cyril . A youth of more blameless manners there could not be ...
... perfect retirement . The one half of society requires that you respect its faith , the other half that you respect its hypocrisy . - - ... Such an one , when I knew him , was Cyril . A youth of more blameless manners there could not be ...
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... perfect man , the ideal product of humanity , all these characteristics would unite , and form a perfect harmony . But the effort to harmonize their workings in an actual man , of flesh and blood limitations , is an arduous business ...
... perfect man , the ideal product of humanity , all these characteristics would unite , and form a perfect harmony . But the effort to harmonize their workings in an actual man , of flesh and blood limitations , is an arduous business ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 664 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Página 215 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Página 637 - I will not. Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Página 215 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace.
Página 455 - Think, when our one soul understands The great Word which makes all things new, When earth breaks up and heaven expands, How will the change strike me and you In the house not made with hands?
Página 145 - In the actual world — the painful kingdom of time and place — dwell care and canker and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing. But grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
Página 642 - I know that even the unaided reason, when correctly exercised, leads to a belief in God, in the immortality of the soul, and in a future retribution. But I am considering it actually and historically, and in this point of view I do not think I am wrong in saying that its tendency is towards a simple unbelief in matters of religion.
Página 76 - O man ! But turn not then to seek again What first the ill began. No God, it saith; ah, wait in faith God's self-completing plan! Receive it not, but leave it not, And wait it out, O man! " The man that went the cloud within Is gone and vanished quite; He cometh not," the people cries, "Nor bringeth God to sight.
Página 664 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquer'd years To one that with us works, and trust, With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from, soul in soul.
Página 483 - And if, unsatisfied with them all, the human mind, with the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will turn to the Mystery from which it has emerged, seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith...