Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 52
... we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize 52 ESSAY II .
... we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize 52 ESSAY II .
Page 59
... 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 price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of ...
... 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 price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of ...
Page 60
... hear any name ; the way , the thought , the good , shall be wholly strange and new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to All persons that ever existed are its forgot- ten ministers . Fear and ...
... hear any name ; the way , the thought , the good , shall be wholly strange and new . It shall exclude example and experience . You take the way from man , not to All persons that ever existed are its forgot- ten ministers . Fear and ...
Page 73
... hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt ...
... hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt ...
Page 85
... - trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot de- monstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought COMPENSATION . 85.
... - trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot de- monstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought COMPENSATION . 85.
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