The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published, Volume 6Reeves and Turner, 1880 |
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... common , with the un- diseased inhabitants of the forest . Something then wherein we differ from them : our habit of altering our food by fire , so that our appetite is no longer a just criterion for the fitness of its gratification ...
... common , with the un- diseased inhabitants of the forest . Something then wherein we differ from them : our habit of altering our food by fire , so that our appetite is no longer a just criterion for the fitness of its gratification ...
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... common water , that apparently innoxious pabulum , when corrupted by the filth of populous cities , is a deadly and insidious destroyer . Who can wonder that all the inducements held out by God himself in the Bible to virtue , should ...
... common water , that apparently innoxious pabulum , when corrupted by the filth of populous cities , is a deadly and insidious destroyer . Who can wonder that all the inducements held out by God himself in the Bible to virtue , should ...
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... common Father's love . Omnipotence itself could not save them from the consequences of this original and universal sin . There is no disease , bodily or mental , which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly miti ...
... common Father's love . Omnipotence itself could not save them from the consequences of this original and universal sin . There is no disease , bodily or mental , which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly miti ...
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... common father had transgressed the And we utterly destroyed them , as we did unto Sihon King of Heshbon utterly destroying the men , women and children of every city . Deut . Chap . III , v . 6 . And they utterly destroyed all that was ...
... common father had transgressed the And we utterly destroyed them , as we did unto Sihon King of Heshbon utterly destroying the men , women and children of every city . Deut . Chap . III , v . 6 . And they utterly destroyed all that was ...
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... common fate with the ignorant and wicked , have been tainted by involuntary and inevitable error which torments infinite in duration may not avail to expiate . In vain will you assure me with amiable inconsistency that the mercy of God ...
... common fate with the ignorant and wicked , have been tainted by involuntary and inevitable error which torments infinite in duration may not avail to expiate . In vain will you assure me with amiable inconsistency that the mercy of God ...
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Page 46 - Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Page 46 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 202 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — -that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death...
Page 51 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Page 202 - One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness, and now rest Where that or thou art no unbidden guest, In the still cave of the witch Poesy, Seeking among the shadows that pass by Ghosts of all things that are...
Page 54 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Page 55 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous 106 Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between , the temple and the altar.
Page 201 - The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters...
Page 46 - And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Page 260 - The shocking absurdities of the popular philosophy of mind and matter, its fatal consequences in morals, and their violent dogmatism concerning the source of all things, had early conducted me to materialism. This materialism is a seducing system to young and superficial minds. It allows its disciples to talk, and dispenses them from thinking. But I was discontented with such a view of things as it afforded ; man is a being of high aspirations, ' looking both before and after...