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... passages of his chequered and disastrous career . 9. We may regard Mr. Blanco White in several charac- ters ; first as a witness to facts , and next as the expositor , and still more as the victim , of opinions . With regard to the ...
... passages of his chequered and disastrous career . 9. We may regard Mr. Blanco White in several charac- ters ; first as a witness to facts , and next as the expositor , and still more as the victim , of opinions . With regard to the ...
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... passage also establishes the fact that the state from which the transi- tion took place was usually one of earnest devotion , and that the life of the young priest opened at least in piety . It would seem , therefore , that there was at ...
... passage also establishes the fact that the state from which the transi- tion took place was usually one of earnest devotion , and that the life of the young priest opened at least in piety . It would seem , therefore , that there was at ...
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... passage he testifies still more broadly , but rather to a matter of opinion than one of fact : — " I have been able to make an estimate of the moral and intel- lectual state of Spain , which few who know me and that country will , I ...
... passage he testifies still more broadly , but rather to a matter of opinion than one of fact : — " I have been able to make an estimate of the moral and intel- lectual state of Spain , which few who know me and that country will , I ...
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... passages on which we have been arguing . But even at a later time he allowed that the Christian revelation was proved up to " a certain - perhaps a slight - degree of proba- 11 bility . " Upon his own statement , therefore II . D BLANCO ...
... passages on which we have been arguing . But even at a later time he allowed that the Christian revelation was proved up to " a certain - perhaps a slight - degree of proba- 11 bility . " Upon his own statement , therefore II . D BLANCO ...
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... passages in the New Testament . It was this ; that the moral consequences which these passages had produced , || and their conformity to that reason which he defined to be the voice of God within us , should be the test.¶ . " I approve ...
... passages in the New Testament . It was this ; that the moral consequences which these passages had produced , || and their conformity to that reason which he defined to be the voice of God within us , should be the test.¶ . " I approve ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 210 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 210 - If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind ; To see those joys the sons of Pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Page 139 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.