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... living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my com- mon sense with the flights of Plato , and of stiffening over the meditations of ...
... living gauge and mete - wand of past and present genius . But alas ! my former studies would still have left a wrong bias ! If instead of perplexing my com- mon sense with the flights of Plato , and of stiffening over the meditations of ...
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... living conviction , and took their place among the realities of my being . On some wide common or open heath , peopled with ant - hills , during some one of the gray cloudy days of late autumn , many of my readers may have noticed the ...
... living conviction , and took their place among the realities of my being . On some wide common or open heath , peopled with ant - hills , during some one of the gray cloudy days of late autumn , many of my readers may have noticed the ...
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... living and sentient beings united at the same mo- ment in one gay sensation , one joyous activity ! But awful in- deed is the same appearance in a multitude of rational beings , our fellow - men , in whom too the effect is produced not ...
... living and sentient beings united at the same mo- ment in one gay sensation , one joyous activity ! But awful in- deed is the same appearance in a multitude of rational beings , our fellow - men , in whom too the effect is produced not ...
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... living . Of what value indeed , to a sane mind , are the likings or dislikings of one man , grounded on the mere assertions of another ? Opinions formed from opinions - what are they , but clouds sailing under clouds , which impress ...
... living . Of what value indeed , to a sane mind , are the likings or dislikings of one man , grounded on the mere assertions of another ? Opinions formed from opinions - what are they , but clouds sailing under clouds , which impress ...
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... living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should repeat these words , with this assurance , tc an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation , lingering at the door ...
... living know they shall die , but the dead know not any thing , neither have they any more a reward . * But he who should repeat these words , with this assurance , tc an ignorant man in the hour of his temptation , lingering at the door ...
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Page 69 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 416 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, yo And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Page 460 - 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...
Page 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 494 - 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...
Page 77 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason?
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...