The British Controversialist and Literary MagazineHoulston and Stonemen, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... human mind are limited , and every new success achieved leaves less for others to accomplish . Thus , each life that is spent in the effect- ing of anything new , diminishes the whole sum of the accomplish- able , and , in proportion ...
... human mind are limited , and every new success achieved leaves less for others to accomplish . Thus , each life that is spent in the effect- ing of anything new , diminishes the whole sum of the accomplish- able , and , in proportion ...
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... human race . Such was his purpose , which , as far as we can judge , was quite free from that dazzling and all - absorbing ambition , or that love of power merely for its own sake , which forms the prominent feature in the character ...
... human race . Such was his purpose , which , as far as we can judge , was quite free from that dazzling and all - absorbing ambition , or that love of power merely for its own sake , which forms the prominent feature in the character ...
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... human nature , so elaborate in its framework , and so far- reaching in its views , could not have sprung from any but a mind of extraordinary compass , a mind self - possessed and 36 IS THE CHARACTER OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA.
... human nature , so elaborate in its framework , and so far- reaching in its views , could not have sprung from any but a mind of extraordinary compass , a mind self - possessed and 36 IS THE CHARACTER OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA.
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... human nature ; he could penetrate each man's disposition and estimate his capa- bilities at a glance ; and this it was that caused the instruments chosen to be those , and those alone , who were adapted for his purpose . To acquire this ...
... human nature ; he could penetrate each man's disposition and estimate his capa- bilities at a glance ; and this it was that caused the instruments chosen to be those , and those alone , who were adapted for his purpose . To acquire this ...
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... human nature , but was lacking in the clearness and straight- forwardness of a soundly constituted mind . He does not seem at all aware of the immorality of the scheme he was propounding , for he nowhere makes any apology for it . He ...
... human nature , but was lacking in the clearness and straight- forwardness of a soundly constituted mind . He does not seem at all aware of the immorality of the scheme he was propounding , for he nowhere makes any apology for it . He ...
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Page 180 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 459 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 180 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 311 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 55 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around — And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 372 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 311 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 181 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 62 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 61 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.