Science for nobleness, for knowledge and for use, an address

Voorkant
Kegan Paul & Company, 1885 - 33 pagina's
 

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Pagina 18 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here...
Pagina 11 - Utilitarians, who would turn, if they had their way, themselves and their race into vegetables ; men who think, as far as such can be said to think, that the meat is more than the life, and the raiment than the body, who look to the earth as a stable, and to its fruit as fodder ; vinedressers and husbandmen, who love the corn they grind, and the grapes they crush, better than the gardens of the angels upon the slopes of Eden...
Pagina 11 - In the perplexities of nations, in their struggles for existence, in their infancy, their impotence, or even their disorganization, they have higher hopes and nobler passions. Out of the suffering comes the serious mind ; out of the salvation, the grateful heart ; out of...
Pagina 10 - Man's use and function (and let him who will not grant me this follow me no farther, for this I purpose always to assume) is to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness.
Pagina 32 - THE STUDENT'S PRAYER. To God the Father, God the Word, God the Spirit, we pour forth most humble and hearty supplications ; that he remembering the calamities of mankind, and the pilgrimage of this our life, in which we wear out days few and evil, would please to open to us new refreshments out of the fountains of his goodness, for the alleviating of our miseries. This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the...
Pagina 18 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou are mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Pagina 11 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God muketh from the beginning to the end.
Pagina 12 - ... when they have learned to live under providence of laws, and with decency and justice of regard for each other, and when they have done away with violent and external sources of suffering, worse evils seem...
Pagina 12 - ... dependence on God may be forgotten, because the bread is given and the water sure ; that gratitude to Him may cease, because His constancy of protection has taken the semblance of a natural law ; that heavenly hope may grow faint...
Pagina 33 - Thus, Great Being, Invisible, Supreme Disposer of our race, I lay at thy feet the most imperfect work that mortal ever wrote, in which he has ventured to trace and follow thy steps. Its leaves may decay and its characters vanish ; forms after forms, too, in which I have discerned traces of thee, and endeavored to exhibit them to my brethren, may molder into dust : but thy purposes will remain, and thou wilt gradually unfold them to thy creatures, and exhibit them in nobler forms.

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