The British Essayists: SpectatorJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest ca- lamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the ...
... faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest ca- lamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the ...
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... faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may apply those beautiful expressions in holy writ : " Behold even to the moon , and it shineth not : yea the stars are not pure in his sight . " The light of the sun , and all the ...
... faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may apply those beautiful expressions in holy writ : " Behold even to the moon , and it shineth not : yea the stars are not pure in his sight . " The light of the sun , and all the ...
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... faculties of the human soul , though they cannot be employed , during this our vital union , without pro- per instruments in the body . Why therefore should we exclude the satisfaction of these faculties , which we find by experience ...
... faculties of the human soul , though they cannot be employed , during this our vital union , without pro- per instruments in the body . Why therefore should we exclude the satisfaction of these faculties , which we find by experience ...
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... faculties , but our reason tells us that it cannot be so in itself . Here therefore is that difficulty which human under- standing is not capable of surmounting . We are sure that something must have existed from eter- nity , and are at ...
... faculties , but our reason tells us that it cannot be so in itself . Here therefore is that difficulty which human under- standing is not capable of surmounting . We are sure that something must have existed from eter- nity , and are at ...
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... faculties suffi- cient to extol and magnify such unutterable good- ness . • It is however some comfort to us , that we shall be always doing what we shall be never able to do ; and that a work which cannot be finished , will how- ever ...
... faculties suffi- cient to extol and magnify such unutterable good- ness . • It is however some comfort to us , that we shall be always doing what we shall be never able to do ; and that a work which cannot be finished , will how- ever ...
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Страница 256 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Страница 256 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Страница 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Страница 114 - Who would not rather read one of his plays, where there is not a single rule of the stage observed, than any production of a modern critic, where there is not one of them violated...
Страница 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Страница 269 - ... them. So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law, and the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it, is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is...
Страница 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Страница 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Страница 112 - In the next place, our critics do not seem sensible that there is more beauty in the works of a great genius who is ignorant of the rules of art, than in those of a little genius who knows and observes them.
Страница 16 - First, How disconsolate is the Condition of an intellectual Being who is thus present with his Maker, but, at the same time, receives no extraordinary Benefit or Advantage from this his Presence! ''Secondly, How deplorable is the Condition of an intellectual Being who feels no other Effects from this his Presence but such as proceed from Divine Wrath and Indignation!