Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 pages |
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Page 44
... church , " said Coleridge , " is a petrified religion . " Michael Angelo maintained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essential . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagination not only motions , as of ...
... church , " said Coleridge , " is a petrified religion . " Michael Angelo maintained , that , to an architect , a knowledge of anatomy is essential . In Haydn's oratorios , the notes present to the imagination not only motions , as of ...
Page 59
... churches of the most ignorant sects is : - " Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world ; they are vanities , dreams , shadows , unrealities ; seek the realities of religion . " The devotee flouts Nature . Some theosophists have ...
... churches of the most ignorant sects is : - " Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world ; they are vanities , dreams , shadows , unrealities ; seek the realities of religion . " The devotee flouts Nature . Some theosophists have ...
Page 107
... church and state . One of these signs is the fact , that the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state , assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the ...
... church and state . One of these signs is the fact , that the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state , assumed in literature a very marked and as benign an aspect . Instead of the ...
Page 121
... church , the state , art , letters , life . The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme ...
... church , the state , art , letters , life . The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme ...
Page 122
... church . In that , all of us have had our birth and nurture . The truth con- tained in that , you , my young friends , are now setting forth to teach . As the Cultus , or estab- lished worship of the civilised world , it has great ...
... church . In that , all of us have had our birth and nurture . The truth con- tained in that , you , my young friends , are now setting forth to teach . As the Cultus , or estab- lished worship of the civilised world , it has great ...
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