Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, and Two Lay Sermons: I. The Statesman's Manual, II. Blessed are Ye that Sow Beside All Waters |
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... believe both true and indispensable for their safety and happiness , cannot but produce an uneasy state of feeling , an involuntary sense of fear from which nature has no means of rescuing herself but by anger . Experience informs us ...
... believe both true and indispensable for their safety and happiness , cannot but produce an uneasy state of feeling , an involuntary sense of fear from which nature has no means of rescuing herself but by anger . Experience informs us ...
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... believe the opposite ; yet , assuredly , a vain person may have so habitually indulged the wish , and persevered in the attempt to appear what he is not , as to become himself one of his own prose- lytes . Still , as this counterfeit ...
... believe the opposite ; yet , assuredly , a vain person may have so habitually indulged the wish , and persevered in the attempt to appear what he is not , as to become himself one of his own prose- lytes . Still , as this counterfeit ...
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... believe , by Sir Joshua Reynolds , that next to the man who formed and elevated the taste of the public , he that corrupted it , is commonly the great- est genius . Among other passages , I ana- lyzed sentence by sentence , and almost ...
... believe , by Sir Joshua Reynolds , that next to the man who formed and elevated the taste of the public , he that corrupted it , is commonly the great- est genius . Among other passages , I ana- lyzed sentence by sentence , and almost ...
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... believe the pre- judice to have arisen , which considers an unusual irascibility con- cerning the reception of its products as characteristic of genius . It might correct the moral feelings of a numerous class of readers to suppose a ...
... believe the pre- judice to have arisen , which considers an unusual irascibility con- cerning the reception of its products as characteristic of genius . It might correct the moral feelings of a numerous class of readers to suppose a ...
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... believe or fancy , that the quantum of intellectual power bestowed on me by nature or education was in any way connected with this habit of my feelings , or that it needed any other parents or fosterers than constitutional indolence ...
... believe or fancy , that the quantum of intellectual power bestowed on me by nature or education was in any way connected with this habit of my feelings , or that it needed any other parents or fosterers than constitutional indolence ...
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Page 333 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith...
Page 150 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 163 - ... because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings, and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 416 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 330 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 384 - For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace!
Page 194 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Page 144 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate ; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify.