Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 10
... present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
... present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day , in the fields , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite ...
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... present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid ...
... present day . The antagonism of the two tendencies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid ...
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... present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and colour ...
... present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and colour ...
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... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the ...
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , —means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the ...
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... present , above time . This should be plain enough . Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a ...
... present , above time . This should be plain enough . Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a ...
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