Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 18
... Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man ...
... Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude , objective form , and which seems the self - defence of man ...
Page 46
... Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating everything to the new terminology , as a girl who has just learned botany , in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby . It will happen for a ...
... Calvinism , Quakerism , Swedenborgism . The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating everything to the new terminology , as a girl who has just learned botany , in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby . It will happen for a ...
Page 94
... it have an outside badge - some Gentoo diet , or Quaker coat , or Calvinistic prayer - meeting , or philan- thropic society , or a great donation , or a high office , or , any how , some wild contrasting action to 94 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... it have an outside badge - some Gentoo diet , or Quaker coat , or Calvinistic prayer - meeting , or philan- thropic society , or a great donation , or a high office , or , any how , some wild contrasting action to 94 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
Page 161
... Calvinistic churches ; the experiences of the Methodists , are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul . M The nature of these revelations is the same ; they ...
... Calvinistic churches ; the experiences of the Methodists , are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul . M The nature of these revelations is the same ; they ...
Page 232
... Calvinism . Banks and tariffs , the newspaper and caucus , methodism and unitarianism , are flat and dull to dull people , but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy , and the temple of Delphos , and are as swiftly ...
... Calvinism . Banks and tariffs , the newspaper and caucus , methodism and unitarianism , are flat and dull to dull people , but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy , and the temple of Delphos , and are as swiftly ...
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