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Page 12
... sense of 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 ...
... sense of 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 ...
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... sense of humiliation when confronted with its wild brother of the desert , fierce , strong , and free , as if discerning in that spectacle the noble type from which itself had fallen . But it is different with a conscious , moral being ...
... sense of humiliation when confronted with its wild brother of the desert , fierce , strong , and free , as if discerning in that spectacle the noble type from which itself had fallen . But it is different with a conscious , moral being ...
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... - ceived with a new sense of identity . The con- templation is no longer sight but recognition ; and as every object which the eye surveys recalls to the saddened spectator a bright and better past , - brings 16 SERMON I.
... - ceived with a new sense of identity . The con- templation is no longer sight but recognition ; and as every object which the eye surveys recalls to the saddened spectator a bright and better past , - brings 16 SERMON I.
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... sense of a Right I was abusing , a Purity I was sullying , a home of my spirit's peace and innocence I was forsaking , ever unconsciously pointed . And in this my vague and shadowy Ideal now become the Real , in this which gives to the ...
... sense of a Right I was abusing , a Purity I was sullying , a home of my spirit's peace and innocence I was forsaking , ever unconsciously pointed . And in this my vague and shadowy Ideal now become the Real , in this which gives to the ...
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... and exigencies . The great obstacles to the soul's recovery of its lost ideal are obviously these two - the sense of Guilt and the consciousness of Moral Weakness ; and the SELF - EVIDENCING NATURE OF DIVINE TRUTH . 21.
... and exigencies . The great obstacles to the soul's recovery of its lost ideal are obviously these two - the sense of Guilt and the consciousness of Moral Weakness ; and the SELF - EVIDENCING NATURE OF DIVINE TRUTH . 21.
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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...