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... present day , like all the men 1 Roger Ascham , " The Scholemaster " ( 1570 ) , ed . Arber , 1870 , book i . , p . 83 . 3 . of Germanic 2 race and education , he was horrified CHAPTER FIFTH The Christian Renaissance SECTION PAGE Decay ...
... present day , like all the men 1 Roger Ascham , " The Scholemaster " ( 1570 ) , ed . Arber , 1870 , book i . , p . 83 . 3 . of Germanic 2 race and education , he was horrified CHAPTER FIFTH The Christian Renaissance SECTION PAGE Decay ...
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... present , destitute of belief in the infinite , with no other worship than that of visible beauty , no other object than the search after pleasure , no other religion than the terrors of imagination and the idolatry of the eyes . " I ...
... present , destitute of belief in the infinite , with no other worship than that of visible beauty , no other object than the search after pleasure , no other religion than the terrors of imagination and the idolatry of the eyes . " I ...
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... present day . " The Germans are , as you know , wonderful drinkers : no people in the world are more flattering , more civil , more offi- cious ; but yet they have terrible cus- toms in the matter of drinking . With them everything is ...
... present day . " The Germans are , as you know , wonderful drinkers : no people in the world are more flattering , more civil , more offi- cious ; but yet they have terrible cus- toms in the matter of drinking . With them everything is ...
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... present day . For the Jew , for the powerful minds who wrote the Pentateuch , 18 for the prophets and authors of the Psalms , life , as we conceive it , was secluded from living things , plants , animals , firmament , sensible objects ...
... present day . For the Jew , for the powerful minds who wrote the Pentateuch , 18 for the prophets and authors of the Psalms , life , as we conceive it , was secluded from living things , plants , animals , firmament , sensible objects ...
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... present at any time when she was houshylde , which was full nigh a dozen times every year , what floods of tears there issued forth of her eyes ! freely to bid him stop the persecution which was set HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 27.
... present at any time when she was houshylde , which was full nigh a dozen times every year , what floods of tears there issued forth of her eyes ! freely to bid him stop the persecution which was set HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 27.
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Page 24 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 309 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 344 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Page 120 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 107 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. But, when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 101 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 122 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 41 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Page 357 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 358 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...