The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writingsTrübner, 1865 - Theology |
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... represented as born of most illus- trious ancestry , having a lineage spotless and august , and is heir of the promises formerly made by God . When he also grows up to manhood , a wife must be sought for him , but not among the women of ...
... represented as born of most illus- trious ancestry , having a lineage spotless and august , and is heir of the promises formerly made by God . When he also grows up to manhood , a wife must be sought for him , but not among the women of ...
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... represented Jehovah as interpos- ing to punish Jacob , or to prevent the birthright from de- scending to his posterity . Ac- Now , as if this illustrious descent were not enough to dignify the Hebrew nation withal , a corresponding and ...
... represented Jehovah as interpos- ing to punish Jacob , or to prevent the birthright from de- scending to his posterity . Ac- Now , as if this illustrious descent were not enough to dignify the Hebrew nation withal , a corresponding and ...
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... represent the cha- racter of that people ; at least , at the time when they were collected . The old Greek spirit of the heroic age is re- flected in the ballads of the Homeric cycle of poets , as sharp and clear as the mountains and ...
... represent the cha- racter of that people ; at least , at the time when they were collected . The old Greek spirit of the heroic age is re- flected in the ballads of the Homeric cycle of poets , as sharp and clear as the mountains and ...
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... representing the man of nature as superior to the man of circumstances . All dis- tinction of rank is occasionally broken through , sometimes in the most absurd and impossible manner . This charac- teristic appears eminently in " The ...
... representing the man of nature as superior to the man of circumstances . All dis- tinction of rank is occasionally broken through , sometimes in the most absurd and impossible manner . This charac- teristic appears eminently in " The ...
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... represents man in his relations with man ; —the Church , man in his relations with man and God . institutions , varying in their modifications , have always been and must be , -as they represent two modes of action that are constant in ...
... represents man in his relations with man ; —the Church , man in his relations with man and God . institutions , varying in their modifications , have always been and must be , -as they represent two modes of action that are constant in ...
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Page 210 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Page 218 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.
Page 227 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 211 - The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius creates.
Page 209 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Page 227 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 299 - Who is gone into Heaven, and is on the Right Hand of God ; Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him.
Page 221 - Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.
Page 210 - In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.
Page 288 - There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.