The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volume 1T. Clark., 1835 |
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Page 316 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought with a price ; be not ye the servants of men.
Page 87 - The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base. And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass, Descend : the Babylonian spires are sunk; Achaia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires, crush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; And all those worlds that roll around the sun : The sun himself shall die ; and ancient Night Again involve the desolate...
Page 259 - perish for lack of knowledge;", or, to " support the weak, to lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees;" or, to bring back and heal that which was lame and turned out of the way.
Page 92 - ... he calls the yoke of civil institutions. But other, and worse chains bind him. The very privation of civil government, is in effect a chain ; for, by withholding protection from property, it virtually shackles the arm of industry, and forbids exertion for the melioration of his lot. Progress, the growth of power, • is the end and boon of liberty ; and without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
Page 96 - ... of moral and religious truth. If we have succeeded in conveying the impressions which we have aimed to make, our readers are now prepared to inquire with interest into the condition and prospects of literature among ourselves. Do we possess, indeed, what may be called a national literature ? Have we produced eminent writers in the various departments of intellectual effort ? Are our chief resources of instruction and literary enjoyment furnished from ourselves ? We regret that the reply to these...
Page 92 - We consider its liberty of value only as far as it favours the growth of men. What is liberty? The removal of restraint from human powers. Its benefit is that it opens new fields for action and a wider range for the mind. The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
Page 77 - Imagine an animal of the lizard tribe, three or four times as large as the largest crocodile, having jaws, with teeth equal in size to the incisors of the rhinoceros, and crested with horns; —such a creature must have been the iguanodon! Nor were the inhabitants of the waters much less wonderful; witness the plesiosaurus, which only required wings to be a flying dragon; the fishes resembling Siluri, Balistcc, &c.
Page 92 - But what is its worth? Free as he is, he continues for ages in the same ignorance, leads the same comfortless life, sees the same untamed wilderness spread around him. He is indeed free from what he calls the yoke of civil institutions. But other and worse chains bind him. The very privation of civil government, is in effect a chain; for, by withholding protection from property, it virtually shackles the arm of industry, and forbids exertion for the melioration of his lot. Progress, the growth of...
Page 99 - A large and increasing proportion of mechanical labour is given to the gratification of an elegant taste. How simple would be the art of building, if it limited itself to the construction of a comfortable shelter ! How many ships should we dismantle, and how many busy trades put to rest, were dress and furniture reduced to the standard of convenience ! This "utility...
Page 95 - But let none imagine that its chosen temple is an uncultivated mind, and that it selects, as its chief organs, the lips of the unlearned.