The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1922 - Authors, English |
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... Spirit, refers to our ability to utilize the six “lower” dimensions of our mind and spirit, and bring to bear all our past experiences of life, in order to skillfully handle the present moment. Acknowledging in all humility that we can ...
... Spirit, refers to our ability to utilize the six “lower” dimensions of our mind and spirit, and bring to bear all our past experiences of life, in order to skillfully handle the present moment. Acknowledging in all humility that we can ...
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... spirit guides . Through my work delivering messages from and answering questions about spirit guides every day , I experience first hand that there are many people hungry to learn more about ... spirit xviii THE SEVEN TYPES OF SPIRIT GUIDE.
... spirit guides . Through my work delivering messages from and answering questions about spirit guides every day , I experience first hand that there are many people hungry to learn more about ... spirit xviii THE SEVEN TYPES OF SPIRIT GUIDE.
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... Spirit in this world. The multiple nature of Christian growth—it occurs on more than one front at a time—creates a complex spiritual and moral experience. While ascertaining ... Spirit is infinite 30 Patience: Harvesting the Spirit's Fruit.
... Spirit in this world. The multiple nature of Christian growth—it occurs on more than one front at a time—creates a complex spiritual and moral experience. While ascertaining ... Spirit is infinite 30 Patience: Harvesting the Spirit's Fruit.
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... spirit , with the belief that the roof will be blown away by the first storm of the year , unless the spirit is duly appeased . Lastly as mentioned earlier , the Ho believe that the ancestral spirits reside in the hut itself ...
... spirit , with the belief that the roof will be blown away by the first storm of the year , unless the spirit is duly appeased . Lastly as mentioned earlier , the Ho believe that the ancestral spirits reside in the hut itself ...
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... spirit and flesh , not as favouring dichotomy , as some suppose , but as rather suggesting the good and evil direction , in which all three , spirit , soul and body , are drawn , when the spirit of God , or the spirit of the wicked one ...
... spirit and flesh , not as favouring dichotomy , as some suppose , but as rather suggesting the good and evil direction , in which all three , spirit , soul and body , are drawn , when the spirit of God , or the spirit of the wicked one ...
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Page 186 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it,3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 187 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Page 186 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 371 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Page 142 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Page 186 - ... Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...
Page 191 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 348 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 401 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 505 - Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all