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 iv
... 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 remarked that I describe ...
... 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 remarked that I describe ...
Pagina 3
... race , fought the good fight , and may fall off like ripe fruit to be gathered in the harvest of your Lord . Oh fear to offend Him who made this wondrous and yet uncom- prehended universe ; and do not endeavour , with vain curiosity ...
... race , fought the good fight , and may fall off like ripe fruit to be gathered in the harvest of your Lord . Oh fear to offend Him who made this wondrous and yet uncom- prehended universe ; and do not endeavour , with vain curiosity ...
Pagina 15
... race . But lovelier far than they , Yes , many things to me are very dear . Sometimes I fear The thought that I must leave them- Mayhap lose them — and for ever . But no ! it could not be . Should some great power sever The bond of love ...
... race . But lovelier far than they , Yes , many things to me are very dear . Sometimes I fear The thought that I must leave them- Mayhap lose them — and for ever . But no ! it could not be . Should some great power sever The bond of love ...
Pagina 49
... races of the world are various , and , even from slight variations of situation , require variations of food . Food is good - nay , is necessary ; but we cannot dogmatise , and say what that food should be . We could not thrust down an ...
... races of the world are various , and , even from slight variations of situation , require variations of food . Food is good - nay , is necessary ; but we cannot dogmatise , and say what that food should be . We could not thrust down an ...
Pagina 61
... race pre- vent your heart's conjunction ; know that in Peace , the noble emulation of noble hearts , is truest heroism . This is no fine fanciful theory , but the language of the Bible , and of the heart .. To be good and to do good as ...
... race pre- vent your heart's conjunction ; know that in Peace , the noble emulation of noble hearts , is truest heroism . This is no fine fanciful theory , but the language of the Bible , and of the heart .. To be good and to do good as ...
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angels beautiful become believe blessed body BURGOS called celibacy Christ Christianity Church of Rome civilisation Creator creed death Deity desire destroy divine doctrines duty earth England Epictetus eternal Europe evil existence eyes fact faith Father favour fear feeling fellow-creatures France give Government happy heart Heaven hold holy honour hope human idea ignorant immortality irreligion Italy Jesus Jews labour liberty live LONDON look Lord Louis Napoleon Louis XIV LUDGATE HILL man's mankind marriage means MILAN mind miserable moral nation nature never noble ourselves Papist PARIS perfect person pleasure political poor priests principles progress Protestantism punishment race reason reform religion religious render rich Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church ROME seek sense sentiment sincere social society soul Spain speak spirit sure thee things thou thought true truth universal whilst wisdom wise words worship
Populaire passages
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...