Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 39
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
... highest merit we ascribe to Moses , Plato , and Milton is , that they set at naught books and traditions , and spoke not what men but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across ...
Page 41
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protect- ed corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers , and benefactors , obeying the Almighty effort , and advancing on Chaos ...
... highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protect- ed corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but guides , redeemers , and benefactors , obeying the Almighty effort , and advancing on Chaos ...
Page 60
... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intu- ition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
... highest truth on this subject remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intu- ition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you ...
Page 68
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft . It supposes du- alism and not ...
... highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good . But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft . It supposes du- alism and not ...
Page 70
... Highest . Such is Calvinism , Qua- kerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new ter- minology , as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby ...
... Highest . Such is Calvinism , Qua- kerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new ter- minology , as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby ...
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