Remarks on the Character and Writings of FenelonRainford, 1830 - 35 страници |
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... - plorers should be able to plant their footsteps so exactly in the track of their predecessors , that the boundlessness of the field should so seldom tempt an adventurous spirit from the beaten way , is wonderful , and right seem a A 2.
... - plorers should be able to plant their footsteps so exactly in the track of their predecessors , that the boundlessness of the field should so seldom tempt an adventurous spirit from the beaten way , is wonderful , and right seem a A 2.
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... spirit of reli- gious tyranny wages its chief and most unrelenting war . dreads nothing so much as a mind , in which these diviner motions manifest themselves in power . That it should have so succeeded in checking and stifling them ...
... spirit of reli- gious tyranny wages its chief and most unrelenting war . dreads nothing so much as a mind , in which these diviner motions manifest themselves in power . That it should have so succeeded in checking and stifling them ...
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... to plant their footsteps so exactly in the track of their predecessors , that the boundlessness of the field should so seldom tempt an adventurous spirit from the & beaten way , is wonderful , and might seem a A 2 CHARACTER AND WRITINGS ...
... to plant their footsteps so exactly in the track of their predecessors , that the boundlessness of the field should so seldom tempt an adventurous spirit from the & beaten way , is wonderful , and might seem a A 2 CHARACTER AND WRITINGS ...
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... spirit . He had no irrepressible desire to sound the depths of his own nature , or to ascend to wide and all - recon- ciling views of the works and ways of God . Moral philosophy he carried backward , nor had he higher claims in ...
... spirit . He had no irrepressible desire to sound the depths of his own nature , or to ascend to wide and all - recon- ciling views of the works and ways of God . Moral philosophy he carried backward , nor had he higher claims in ...
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... spirit pines away in a prison ; and yet to rear prison walls round the mind has been the chief toil of ages . The mischiefs of this intellectual bondage are as yet , we conceive , but imperfectly known , and need to be set forth with a ...
... spirit pines away in a prison ; and yet to rear prison walls round the mind has been the chief toil of ages . The mischiefs of this intellectual bondage are as yet , we conceive , but imperfectly known , and need to be set forth with a ...
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Страница 2 - the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Страница 2 - put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest under-service, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for me if I should draw back; for me especially, now when all men
Страница 1 - a work,' he says, ' Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by
Страница 16 - I. pp. 250, 251. We here learn that a passage in Paradise Lost, which we have admired as poetry, was deemed by Milton sound philosophy. ' O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Indued with various forms, various
Страница 40 - his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, * * * Par. Lost, bi lines 192—196. Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool Driven backward, slope their pointing spires, and roll'd His mighty stature ; on each hand
Страница 7 - A still more remarkable proof, that the sanctification of the sabbath consisted in resting after the example of God, is furnished by Christ, who says, that ' on the sabbath days the priests in the Temple profane the sabbath f.' So essential was rest to the hallowing of
Страница 17 - or nearer tending Each in their several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flow'rs and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual:
Страница 39 - wip'd them with her hair ; Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell Kiss'd, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse And pious awe, that fear'd to have offended.
Страница 3 - shall put an end to all earthly tyrannies, proclaiming thy universal and mild monarchy through heaven and earth; where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and
Страница 1 - recognized as by instinct, and separated from all inferior adjuncts, these essential constituents or attributes of Christian virtue ; and there are passages in which he sets before us their deep and silent workings in the heart, and their beautiful manifestations in the life, with a delicacy, power, and truth, which can hardly be surpassed. We have said that self-crucifixion and love to God are, in