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... never become really ours , they would never be known at all by com- mon thinkers , but for the aid which the discoveries of high and philosophic minds afford them . So again , to what is it that the great poet owes the power to charm ...
... never become really ours , they would never be known at all by com- mon thinkers , but for the aid which the discoveries of high and philosophic minds afford them . So again , to what is it that the great poet owes the power to charm ...
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... never themselves have pro- duced them . There are multitudes of " mute inglorious Miltons , " though there never lived but one who could write the " Paradise Lost . " Dim , indistinct , nebulous , the thoughts of beauty and truth lurk ...
... never themselves have pro- duced them . There are multitudes of " mute inglorious Miltons , " though there never lived but one who could write the " Paradise Lost . " Dim , indistinct , nebulous , the thoughts of beauty and truth lurk ...
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... never have found out that ideal for himself , yet , when it is presented to him in Scripture , there is that within him which is capable of recognising it as his own . For the recognition of a lost ideal is a mental act , the ...
... never have found out that ideal for himself , yet , when it is presented to him in Scripture , there is that within him which is capable of recognising it as his own . For the recognition of a lost ideal is a mental act , the ...
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... of ex- cellence after which it may have vaguely groped , but which it never realised till now . " Here " - is the soul's involuntary conviction— " Here is that conception which haunted me ever in my sinful- ness , 18 SERMON I.
... of ex- cellence after which it may have vaguely groped , but which it never realised till now . " Here " - is the soul's involuntary conviction— " Here is that conception which haunted me ever in my sinful- ness , 18 SERMON I.
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... never fully discerned till now ; here is that Light to which my darkened con- science was vainly struggling , that standard to which my dim sense of a Right I was abusing , a Purity I was sullying , a home of my spirit's peace and ...
... never fully discerned till now ; here is that Light to which my darkened con- science was vainly struggling , that standard to which my dim sense of a Right I was abusing , a Purity I was sullying , a home of my spirit's peace and ...
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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...