Doubting Castle

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Boni and Liveright, 1922 - 278 pages

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Page 9 - Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with Thine ears consider my calling: hold not Thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with Thee : and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 7 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 10 - As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 10 - LORD, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art GOD from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 6 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 180 - But when you can't rise to it, woman!' he shouted in exasperation. 'Why would I rise to it when I've my fine strong son to carry me?' All that evening the argument went on, but my father made no impression on her. She had made up her mind to go, and go she would if the heavens fell. That little woman, she declared to all who spoke to her, was one she had a great regard for, one of the old stock that had almost died out. And you began to perceive in spite of my grandmother's dryness that she did really...
Page 192 - Thou comest to bend the pride Of the hearts of God and man, Cypris; and by thy side, In earth-encircling span, He of the changing plumes, The Wing that the world illumes, As over the leagues of land flies he, Over the salt and sounding sea. For mad is the heart of Love, And gold the gleam of his wing; And all to the spell thereof Bend, when he makes his spring; All...
Page 61 - I saw the sea-gulls' wheeling flight. I heard the sighing of the reeds Night after night, day after day, And I forgot old age, and dying, And youth that loves, and love's decay. I heard the sighing of the reeds At noontide and at evening, And some old dream I had forgotten I seemed to be remembering. I hear the sighing of the reeds : Is it in vain, is it in vain That some old peace I had forgotten Is crying to come back again...
Page 27 - ... thesis in intuitionistic mathematics. It is of course clear that this question could not even be properly formulated without the machinery of mathematical logic. 0. DOUBTS If one does not have general doubts about philosophical questions one should omit this section: for (Lord Melbourne) If it is not necessary to do a thing it is necessary not to do it. (Talleyrand, when told that a certain stupid personage did not think much). 'Le prince pense beaucoup trap pour son intelligence.
Page 40 - And close to my heart it nestles warm, But its brithers dinna ken it's there. I stole my curl, my silk soft curl, My bonny curl o

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