Orations and Essays: With Selected Parish SermonsHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 416 pages |
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Page 94 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 299 - And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
Page 190 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld. Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each...
Page 397 - Another parable put he forth unto them, saying; The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat; and went his way.
Page 331 - And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life : he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Page 322 - EVE. DEEP on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to the moon : My breath to heaven like vapour goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord : Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are...
Page 94 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Page 97 - We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud 'electricity,' and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? "What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable,...
Page 99 - And the most discouraging part of it is that the influences which should correct, in many cases only intensify the evil. It grieves a right-minded man to see reported in the papers the saying of a preacher of the Gospel that the Pacific railroad would give us more enlarged conceptions of the divine attributes. But men have walked humbly with God who went on foot ; the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, were on the earth before the days of Watt and Stephenson.
Page 309 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.