Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, المجلد 2Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... object of our domestic kindness , and vanity and rest- lessness the motive of our more laborious philanthropy . " He that relieves another upon the bare suggestion and bowels of Pity , " says Sir Thomas Browne , " doth not this so much ...
... object of our domestic kindness , and vanity and rest- lessness the motive of our more laborious philanthropy . " He that relieves another upon the bare suggestion and bowels of Pity , " says Sir Thomas Browne , " doth not this so much ...
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... object and sanction the well - being of men in the present world . Of systems of morality thus founded only on human reason , it might at once be anticipated that those constructed before the revelation of Chris- tianity would be purer ...
... object and sanction the well - being of men in the present world . Of systems of morality thus founded only on human reason , it might at once be anticipated that those constructed before the revelation of Chris- tianity would be purer ...
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... object is to encounter vice and folly with their own earth - weapons , -to reason down the sophistry of vice , to ridicule to silence the giddy mirth of folly . Here antiquity possessed a superiority over us . For this knowledge is to ...
... object is to encounter vice and folly with their own earth - weapons , -to reason down the sophistry of vice , to ridicule to silence the giddy mirth of folly . Here antiquity possessed a superiority over us . For this knowledge is to ...
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... object itself under its best form . You and I , Mr. Stanley , have ' like all men of sense , ' as Dr. Parr would say , our own notions of all this new con- quering empire of light and reason , ' and of this whole affair of popular ...
... object itself under its best form . You and I , Mr. Stanley , have ' like all men of sense , ' as Dr. Parr would say , our own notions of all this new con- quering empire of light and reason , ' and of this whole affair of popular ...
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... objects with which it fills the fancy , as food for meditation , to the exclusion of the events and interests of domestic life , and the general predominance which it gives in the thoughts to the public distant over the private past ...
... objects with which it fills the fancy , as food for meditation , to the exclusion of the events and interests of domestic life , and the general predominance which it gives in the thoughts to the public distant over the private past ...
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الصفحة 224 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
الصفحة 94 - My dear dear Friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.
الصفحة 27 - ... of the sun made them more admire him than its supernatural station did the children of Israel; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them than in the other all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphics, and disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature.
الصفحة 92 - Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee — Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young ! When I was young ? — Ah, woful When ! Ah ! for the change 'twixt Now and Then...
الصفحة 93 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
الصفحة 93 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
الصفحة 95 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
الصفحة 95 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight...
الصفحة 41 - ... civem totius mundi quasi unius urbis agnoverit, in hac ille magnificentia rerum atque in hoc conspectu et cognitione naturae, dii...