The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Literary criticismsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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... seek out many inventions . Our political institutions can hardly be termed a copy , a tradition , a reminiscence . They are origi- nal . In whatever direction the American mind is turned , it is self - confiding , original , creative ...
... seek out many inventions . Our political institutions can hardly be termed a copy , a tradition , a reminiscence . They are origi- nal . In whatever direction the American mind is turned , it is self - confiding , original , creative ...
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... seeking to create wealth for the soul ? The scholar , in fact , ought to be chary of producing a disgust , a loathing ... seek to combine business with literature , as we would practice with theory , -and make it felt to be not beneath ...
... seeking to create wealth for the soul ? The scholar , in fact , ought to be chary of producing a disgust , a loathing ... seek to combine business with literature , as we would practice with theory , -and make it felt to be not beneath ...
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... seek with great earnestness , by all the means in their power , to escape it ; to cease to be mere drudges , living and toiling but for the human animal ; to gain independence , and a position by which they can take rank as men amongst ...
... seek with great earnestness , by all the means in their power , to escape it ; to cease to be mere drudges , living and toiling but for the human animal ; to gain independence , and a position by which they can take rank as men amongst ...
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... seek them , and they will be produced not in consequence of any specific discipline we may prescribe . They will come when there is a work for them to do , and in consequence of the fact that the people are everywhere struggling to ...
... seek them , and they will be produced not in consequence of any specific discipline we may prescribe . They will come when there is a work for them to do , and in consequence of the fact that the people are everywhere struggling to ...
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... seek to affect the minds or the hearts of his like , to move , persuade , convince , please , instruct , or ennoble . To this end he chants a poem , composes a melody , laughs in a comedy , weeps in a tragedy , gives us an oration , a ...
... seek to affect the minds or the hearts of his like , to move , persuade , convince , please , instruct , or ennoble . To this end he chants a poem , composes a melody , laughs in a comedy , weeps in a tragedy , gives us an oration , a ...
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Page 432 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 117 - We are of God : he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 233 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the prudence of the prudent will I reject. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
Page 584 - Who shall ascend into heaven ? (that is to bring Christ down from above ;) Or, who shall descend into the deep ? (that is to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 310 - As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate, He was 'ware of a leper, crouched by the same, Who begged with his hand and moaned as he sate...
Page 558 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 374 - Let him draw, rather, a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless demon ; a picture in repose, rather than in action; not so much an example of human nature in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime, as an infernal being, a fiend, in the ordinary display and development of his character.
Page 72 - ... but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
Page 581 - No man can come unto me, except the father who hath sent me draw him.
Page 311 - As Sir Launfal mused with a downcast face A light shone round about the place; The leper no longer crouched at his side, But stood before him glorified, Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate, — Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the temple of God in Man.