National Idealism and the Book of Common Prayer: An Essay in Re-interpretation and RevisionWilliams and Norgate, 1908 - 467 pages |
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Page xv
... believe that Christianity is about to put on a second life , more enduring and more fruitful than the first ; and I believe that those who bring this consummation to pass will be those for whom mythology can never die , because they see ...
... believe that Christianity is about to put on a second life , more enduring and more fruitful than the first ; and I believe that those who bring this consummation to pass will be those for whom mythology can never die , because they see ...
Page xvi
... believe - did . I am startled , therefore , to learn that on my assumption Christ is as dead as Moloch or Cupid . It is not true that a man who has lived is afterwards dead in the sense in which the mere poetic personification of an ...
... believe - did . I am startled , therefore , to learn that on my assumption Christ is as dead as Moloch or Cupid . It is not true that a man who has lived is afterwards dead in the sense in which the mere poetic personification of an ...
Page xix
... believe that the more cultivated Greeks actually had faith in the existence of a personal , self - conscious agent whom they named Aphrodite ? Let him read his Hippolytus again ; or , if he has not time nowadays to resume his Greek ...
... believe that the more cultivated Greeks actually had faith in the existence of a personal , self - conscious agent whom they named Aphrodite ? Let him read his Hippolytus again ; or , if he has not time nowadays to resume his Greek ...
Page xx
... believe that they have derived the greatest benefits , in order to derive still further benefits . This definition Mrs Husband introduces with these words : - To find his definition of religion , Dr Coit follows the old and discredited ...
... believe that they have derived the greatest benefits , in order to derive still further benefits . This definition Mrs Husband introduces with these words : - To find his definition of religion , Dr Coit follows the old and discredited ...
Page xxi
... believe it , but he is fully aware from experience that he also has received benefits , although he possesses nothing which the cynic may envy ; and that he also expects good things to come , as much as the most hardened self - seeker ...
... believe it , but he is fully aware from experience that he also has received benefits , although he possesses nothing which the cynic may envy ; and that he also expects good things to come , as much as the most hardened self - seeker ...
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Page 257 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth...
Page 256 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 130 The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold...
Page 262 - Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
Page 227 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 448 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Page 9 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 450 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 166 - And in this trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another; But the whole three Persons are co-eternal together, and co-equal.
Page 337 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 292 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, * and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.