The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, المجلد 35 |
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... faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest ca- lamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the ...
... faculties . He can hinder any of the greatest comforts of life from refreshing us , and give an edge to every one of its slightest ca- lamities . Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence , that is , from the ...
الصفحة 60
... faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may apply those beautiful expressions in holy writ : " Behold even to the moon , and it shineth not : yea the stars are not pure in his sight . " The light of the sun , and all the ...
... faculties . It is to this majestic presence of God we may apply those beautiful expressions in holy writ : " Behold even to the moon , and it shineth not : yea the stars are not pure in his sight . " The light of the sun , and all the ...
الصفحة 61
... faculties of the human soul , though they cannot be employed , during this our vital union , without pro- per instruments in the body . Why therefore should we exclude the satisfaction of these faculties , which we find by experience ...
... faculties of the human soul , though they cannot be employed , during this our vital union , without pro- per instruments in the body . Why therefore should we exclude the satisfaction of these faculties , which we find by experience ...
الصفحة 103
... faculties , but our reason tells us that it cannot be so in itself . Here therefore is that difficulty which human under- standing is not capable of surmounting . We are sure that something must have existed from eter- nity , and are at ...
... faculties , but our reason tells us that it cannot be so in itself . Here therefore is that difficulty which human under- standing is not capable of surmounting . We are sure that something must have existed from eter- nity , and are at ...
الصفحة 107
... faculties suffi- cient to extol and magnify such unutterable good- ness . It is however some comfort to us , that we shall be always doing what we shall be never able to do ; and that a work which cannot be finished , will how- ever be ...
... faculties suffi- cient to extol and magnify such unutterable good- ness . It is however some comfort to us , that we shall be always doing what we shall be never able to do ; and that a work which cannot be finished , will how- ever be ...
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الصفحة 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
الصفحة 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
الصفحة 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
الصفحة 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
الصفحة 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
الصفحة 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
الصفحة 278 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
الصفحة 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...