The Works of William E. Channing, المجلد 1James Munroe, 1845 |
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الصفحة xxi
... passion for power , for dominion over men . There is nothing in the view of our divine teacher so hostile to his ... passions , and it has inflicted more terrible evils on the human family than all others . It has made the names of king ...
... passion for power , for dominion over men . There is nothing in the view of our divine teacher so hostile to his ... passions , and it has inflicted more terrible evils on the human family than all others . It has made the names of king ...
الصفحة xxii
... passion , government , ordained by God , to defend the weak against the strong , to exalt right above might , has up to this time been the great wrong doer . Its crimes throw those of private men into the shade . Its murders reduce to ...
... passion , government , ordained by God , to defend the weak against the strong , to exalt right above might , has up to this time been the great wrong doer . Its crimes throw those of private men into the shade . Its murders reduce to ...
الصفحة xxiv
... passion , enjoining one course and forbidding another , with stern voice , with uncom- promising authority . Study is a restraint , compelling us , if we would learn any thing , to concentrate the forces of thought , and to bridle the ...
... passion , enjoining one course and forbidding another , with stern voice , with uncom- promising authority . Study is a restraint , compelling us , if we would learn any thing , to concentrate the forces of thought , and to bridle the ...
الصفحة xxv
... passions , only that the nobler faculties and affections may have freer play , may ascend to God , and embrace all his works . Parents impose restraint , that the child may learn to go alone , may outgrow authority . Government is ...
... passions , only that the nobler faculties and affections may have freer play , may ascend to God , and embrace all his works . Parents impose restraint , that the child may learn to go alone , may outgrow authority . Government is ...
الصفحة 8
... passions throw over it , and depicts the soul in those modes of repose or agitation , of tenderness or sublime emotion , which manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence . To a man of a literal and prosaic character ...
... passions throw over it , and depicts the soul in those modes of repose or agitation , of tenderness or sublime emotion , which manifest its thirst for a more powerful and joyful existence . To a man of a literal and prosaic character ...
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الصفحة 32 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
الصفحة 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
الصفحة 28 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
الصفحة 13 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
الصفحة 50 - O Adam, one almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection; one first matter all, Indued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
الصفحة 50 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower...
الصفحة 320 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
الصفحة 52 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
الصفحة 14 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
الصفحة 30 - Then amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty measures, to sing and celebrate thy divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages...