The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion. With Literary Amusements Interspersed |
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The faith in the perpetual progression of human nature towards perfection gives
birth to such lofty dreams , as secure to it the devout assent of the imagination ,
and it will be yet more grateful to a heart just opening to hope , flushed with the ...
The faith in the perpetual progression of human nature towards perfection gives
birth to such lofty dreams , as secure to it the devout assent of the imagination ,
and it will be yet more grateful to a heart just opening to hope , flushed with the ...
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There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks with sadness , if his
faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast
; - a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many whom he loves , so ...
There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks with sadness , if his
faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast
; - a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many whom he loves , so ...
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How often , when under the impulses of those solemn hours , in which he has felt
with clearer insight and deeper faith his sacred truths , he labours to win to his
own belief those whom he loves , will he be checked by their indifference or their
...
How often , when under the impulses of those solemn hours , in which he has felt
with clearer insight and deeper faith his sacred truths , he labours to win to his
own belief those whom he loves , will he be checked by their indifference or their
...
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... has no cause for complaint ; but if it be not so , a youth of genius might , it
should seem , be preserved from any wrong influence of this faith by an insight
into a simple truth , namely , that it is not necessary , in order to satisfy the desires
of our ...
... has no cause for complaint ; but if it be not so , a youth of genius might , it
should seem , be preserved from any wrong influence of this faith by an insight
into a simple truth , namely , that it is not necessary , in order to satisfy the desires
of our ...
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subtle reasonings and fair analogies which logic and induction could supply to a
mighty intellect , it is yet on this ground that the Socrates of Plato mainly rests his
faith in the immortality of the soul , and the moral government of the universe .
subtle reasonings and fair analogies which logic and induction could supply to a
mighty intellect , it is yet on this ground that the Socrates of Plato mainly rests his
faith in the immortality of the soul , and the moral government of the universe .
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198 ページ - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
121 ページ - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true: a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
197 ページ - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
253 ページ - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
198 ページ - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea, Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
142 ページ - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
184 ページ - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
121 ページ - I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
112 ページ - Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor— thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.