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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It is only on an undue love and admiration : of their own age that they can build
their confia dence in the melioration of the human race . Nors is this faith , which ,
in some shape , will always be the creed of virtue , without apparent reason ...
It is only on an undue love and admiration : of their own age that they can build
their confia dence in the melioration of the human race . Nors is this faith , which ,
in some shape , will always be the creed of virtue , without apparent reason ...
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... subdue the reason . 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
...
... subdue the reason . 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
...
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Even when the mind , strong in reason and just feeling united , and relying on its
strength , has attached itself to truth , how much is there in the course and
accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are
pleasures ...
Even when the mind , strong in reason and just feeling united , and relying on its
strength , has attached itself to truth , how much is there in the course and
accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are
pleasures ...
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To give to the reason and eloquence of one man this complete control over the
minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times
. For thus whatever false opinion of preeminence is attached to the age becomes
...
To give to the reason and eloquence of one man this complete control over the
minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times
. For thus whatever false opinion of preeminence is attached to the age becomes
...
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... the very reason that he surpassed the rest of his tribe in stature , and who now
lies thus conspicuously inhumed upon the mountain - top , while the bones of his
followers are laid unobtrusively together in their burrows upon the plain below .
... the very reason that he surpassed the rest of his tribe in stature , and who now
lies thus conspicuously inhumed upon the mountain - top , while the bones of his
followers are laid unobtrusively together in their burrows upon the plain below .
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action admiration appear appropriate authority become believe called cause character circumstances common concerning connected consequence considered contemplation course derived distinct duty effect equally essays existence experience fact faith feelings force former French Friend genius give given greater ground hand heart honor hope human idea imagination importance individual influence instance intellectual interest island knowledge latter least less light living look Lord Malta Maltese means ment method mind moral nature necessary necessity never objects observation once opinion original particular perhaps persons philosophy Plato position possess possible practical present principles produced progress readers reason received refer relations religion remain respect seems sense Sir Alexander Ball soul spirit things thou thought tion true truth understanding virtue whole youth
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197 ページ - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
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.