Evening ThoughtsJ. Van Voorst, 1850 - 144 pages |
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action affections analogy angels animal anity artist attain beauty becomes bird bodily body Bridgewater Treatise cause Christ Christianity colour condition consciousness contemplation conviction Cudworth cultivated deductive reasoners discovery Divine idea Divine light earth earthly EDMUND SHARPE Engravings evil excite existence experience fact faculty Fcap feels force gives God's happiness harmony heart higher highest science human nature ideal ideal type Illustrations imagination immortality impressions instinct intellect invisible power knowledge laws living look Lord Bacon lower LYCIA magnetism matter means mental merely metaphysical mind moral morocco motion natural philosopher Newton nonchalance object observation organ outer world outward world perfect persons philosopher Phrenologists physical science Plato pleasure poet pride principle produce pure reason reflection Repose rest Schiller seed self-consciousness self-culture selfishness sense sensual sight similes soul spiritual science spiritual truths supply theory thought tion true understanding unity unseen visible VOORST whole WILLIAM MULREADY words
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Page 26 - Him ; and in that love one to another which suffereth long and is kind ; envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, and never faileth.
Page 106 - To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke ; Then to subdue and quell, o'er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power...
Page 107 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Page 60 - I have often said, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel ; and sensibility has not only occasion to suffer for others, but is sure of its own portion too.
Page 60 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.