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... beauty of fair scenes , as sweet sounds need no authentication of their harmony to the sensitive ear ; so , between the spirit of man , and that infinite world of moral beauty and harmony which revelation discloses , there is a ...
... beauty of fair scenes , as sweet sounds need no authentication of their harmony to the sensitive ear ; so , between the spirit of man , and that infinite world of moral beauty and harmony which revelation discloses , there is a ...
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... beauty and truth lurk in many a mind , but it is only the creative voice of genius from without that con- denses and shapes them into visible beauty - gives to them local habitation and name - and so , by interpreting ourselves to ...
... beauty and truth lurk in many a mind , but it is only the creative voice of genius from without that con- denses and shapes them into visible beauty - gives to them local habitation and name - and so , by interpreting ourselves to ...
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... beauty and harmony of divine things ; but the vision of the soul is blurred , the spiritual ear has lost its sensitiveness to heaven's music . How then any longer can the soul be regarded as the criterion of truth - how can it be ...
... beauty and harmony of divine things ; but the vision of the soul is blurred , the spiritual ear has lost its sensitiveness to heaven's music . How then any longer can the soul be regarded as the criterion of truth - how can it be ...
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... beauty . The sight of her material glory rouses the dormant imagination into action ; but it needs long familiarity with her presence , long and reve- rent study and contemplation of her manifold forms and aspects , till her full ...
... beauty . The sight of her material glory rouses the dormant imagination into action ; but it needs long familiarity with her presence , long and reve- rent study and contemplation of her manifold forms and aspects , till her full ...
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... beauty , not the most evanescent tone of its heavenly harmony , is lost . Thus , impaired and defective though our nature be , inasmuch as the truth restores and refines the very powers by which it is recognised , it may still be ...
... beauty , not the most evanescent tone of its heavenly harmony , is lost . Thus , impaired and defective though our nature be , inasmuch as the truth restores and refines the very powers by which it is recognised , it may still be ...
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Page 229 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 143 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 102 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 251 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 265 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...