 | Joseph Cottle - 1837 - 380 pagina’s
...self-upbraidings, is that, in which he thrills the inmost heart, by saying, with a sepulchral solemnity, " I have learned what a sin is against an infinite, imperishable being, such as is the soul of man !" And yet, is this, and such as this, to be devoted to forgetfulness, and all be sacrificed, lest... | |
 | 1838 - 564 pagina’s
...imminent peril. Far otherwise is, and hath been my state, yet I too am grateful ; yet I cannot rejoice. I feel with an intensity unfathomable by words, my...nothingness, impotence. and worthlessness, in and for myself. vOL. LXvI. NO. CXXXIII. C I have learned what a sin is, against an infinite imperishable being, such... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 pagina’s
...delirium, followed by those agonies of mind and body by which both are at last distorted and ruined. 8. We have all read the English Opium-Eater's Confessions,...nothingness, impotence, and worthlessness, in and for myself. 9. " I have learned what a sin is against an infinite, imperishable being, such as is the soul of man.... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pagina’s
...promised strength amidst man's weakness. Coleridge replies in one of his least despairing letters : — " I feel, with an intensity unfathomable by words, my...infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man 1 I have had more than a glimpse of what is meant by death and outer darkness, and the worm that dieth... | |
 | 1843 - 846 pagina’s
...promised strength amidst man's weakness. Coleridge replies in one of his least despairing letters : — " I feel, with an intensity unfathomable by words, my...infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man 1 I have had more than a glimpse of what is meant by death and outer darkness, and the worm that dieth... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pagina’s
...public, that at least some little good may be effected by my dire example." In another letter : — " 1 feel with an intensity unfathomable by words my utter nothingness, impotence, and worthlessness in and of mvself. I have learned VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY. what sin is against an imperishable being, such as the... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1847 - 562 pagina’s
...self-upbraidings, is that, in which he thrills the inmost heart, by saying, with a sepulchral solemnity, " I have learned what a sin is against an infinite, imperishable being, such as is the soul of man ! " And yet, is this, and such as this, to be devoted to forgetfulness, and all be sacrificed, lest... | |
 | 1859 - 890 pagina’s
..." that he has felt intensely his utter nothingness, impotence, and worthlessness ; and that he has learned what a sin is against an infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man." And he adds, his " only comfort is in clinging to God, and in the one earnest, importunate, and ofteu... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagina’s
...Besides the guilt of sin, and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin. — Nathaniel Culverwell. I have learned what a sin is against an infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man. Coleridge. Shame is a great restraint upon sinners at first, but that soon fulls off; and when men... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1911 - 516 pagina’s
...imminent peril. Far otherwise is, and hath been, my state; yet I too am grateful; yet I cannot rejoice. I feel, with an intensity, unfathomable by words,...infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man. sistent with the love of God, than the blindness of one who has occasioned loathsome and guilty diseases... | |
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I feel, with an intensity unfathomable by words, my utter nothingness, impotence, and worthlessness, in and for myself. I have learned what a sin is against an infinite imperishable being, such as is the soul of man... 
