A Record of Thoughts, on Religious, Political, Social and Personal Subjects, from 1843 to 1873. To which is Added "The Story of the King's Son.".Trübner, 1873 |
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Pagina iii
... , and it will at once be seen by those who are conversant with the great Swede's works , that the writer's ideas on the Deity , Free Will , & c . and the important prin- ( 6 ciple of the three loves in man , are those.
... , and it will at once be seen by those who are conversant with the great Swede's works , that the writer's ideas on the Deity , Free Will , & c . and the important prin- ( 6 ciple of the three loves in man , are those.
Pagina iv
... important to the human race than that of religion . To obtain reasonable , practical , and yet elevating ideas on that supreme subject , has been the object of my life , and is mainly the subject of these recorded thoughts . It may be ...
... important to the human race than that of religion . To obtain reasonable , practical , and yet elevating ideas on that supreme subject , has been the object of my life , and is mainly the subject of these recorded thoughts . It may be ...
Pagina 7
... important case ; and I have often felt the effect produced by a beautiful painting , an anthem , or chant , passing a church , and the general effect which the clergy gain over the senses of the people is remarkable , also the usual ...
... important case ; and I have often felt the effect produced by a beautiful painting , an anthem , or chant , passing a church , and the general effect which the clergy gain over the senses of the people is remarkable , also the usual ...
Pagina 63
... importance than liberty ; liberty , reform , the people , are but vague and partially good cries , unless accompanied with a desire for goodness and truth . Social deterioration nullifies political wisdom ; in vain good laws are made ...
... importance than liberty ; liberty , reform , the people , are but vague and partially good cries , unless accompanied with a desire for goodness and truth . Social deterioration nullifies political wisdom ; in vain good laws are made ...
Pagina 71
... importance of these two questions - the celibacy of the priests and the spread of the Gospel , but for a practical advantage - to further that liberty , the sure success of that liberty and confraternity which is now so dear to the ...
... importance of these two questions - the celibacy of the priests and the spread of the Gospel , but for a practical advantage - to further that liberty , the sure success of that liberty and confraternity which is now so dear to the ...
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Pagina 371 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Pagina 379 - ... to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Pagina 359 - I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Pagina 373 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, > with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Pagina 377 - I doubt not but all ingenuous and knowing men will easily agree with me, that a free commonwealth, without single person or house of lords, is by far the best government if it can be had ; but we have all this while, say they, been expecting it, and cannot yet attain it.
Pagina 372 - God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin...
Pagina 360 - No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Pagina 379 - They teach not, that to govern well, is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue, and that which springs from thence, magnanimity (take heed of that}, and that which is our beginning, regeneration, and happiest end, likeness to God, which in one word we call godliness; and that this is the true flourishing of a land, other things follow as the shadow does the substance; to teach thus were mere pulpitry to them.
Pagina 379 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Pagina 373 - ... and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house. He entertains him, gives him gifts, feasts him, lodges him ; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped, and sumptuously laid to sleep ; rises is saluted, and after the malmsey, or some...