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Page xv
... lives on ; and is seed - corn for future generations , or bread - corn to feed the living . Christianity as an idea was far in advance of Judaism and Hebraism . As a life it transcended everything which the highest man had dreamed of in ...
... lives on ; and is seed - corn for future generations , or bread - corn to feed the living . Christianity as an idea was far in advance of Judaism and Hebraism . As a life it transcended everything which the highest man had dreamed of in ...
Page xlii
... live on the statute- book , but they are eminently exceptional in this country , and fast becoming obsolete . All is left to the voluntary activity of the people . The immediate practical consequence has been a multiplication of ...
... live on the statute- book , but they are eminently exceptional in this country , and fast becoming obsolete . All is left to the voluntary activity of the people . The immediate practical consequence has been a multiplication of ...
Page xlviii
... lives of those persons who built churches with their lives ? Taken as a whole , the clergy of Christendom op- pose the foremost science , justice , philanthropy , and piety of the age . The ecclesiastical institutions seem to bear the ...
... lives of those persons who built churches with their lives ? Taken as a whole , the clergy of Christendom op- pose the foremost science , justice , philanthropy , and piety of the age . The ecclesiastical institutions seem to bear the ...
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... live man : that is all I get for my virtue ! I am a brave man , and my country needs me to repel the Spanish Armada , or to keep imperial Nicholas , or Francis , or papal Pius the Ninth , or the little - hearted President Napoleon ...
... live man : that is all I get for my virtue ! I am a brave man , and my country needs me to repel the Spanish Armada , or to keep imperial Nicholas , or Francis , or papal Pius the Ninth , or the little - hearted President Napoleon ...
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... lives forty years longer in joyous wantonness and riot ; and when she also passes away it is to the same end as the other ; only she for her falseness has had forty years of animal joy , and the noble mother for her faithfulness has had ...
... lives forty years longer in joyous wantonness and riot ; and when she also passes away it is to the same end as the other ; only she for her falseness has had forty years of animal joy , and the noble mother for her faithfulness has had ...
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Page 258 - The tears into his eyes were brought. And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
Page 94 - For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Page 229 - There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people...
Page 67 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Page 109 - the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy," at the creation of water itself.
Page 339 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 232 - 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; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain.
Page 79 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 42 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 170 - Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim, Lights of the world, and demi-gods of Fame? Is this your triumph — this your proud applause, Children of Truth, and champions of her cause...