The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion. With Literary Amusements Interspersed, Том 3William Pickering, 1837 |
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... progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues with the changing manners of society : and it is not for a young mind to compare what is gained with what has passed away ; to discern that ...
... progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues with the changing manners of society : and it is not for a young mind to compare what is gained with what has passed away ; to discern that ...
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... progress of man , there may even imperceptibly steal both from the belief itself , and from many of the views on which it rests , some- thing like a distrust of the wisdom of great men of former ages , and with the reverence , which no ...
... progress of man , there may even imperceptibly steal both from the belief itself , and from many of the views on which it rests , some- thing like a distrust of the wisdom of great men of former ages , and with the reverence , which no ...
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... progress of so- ciety , and will derive from illusion itself the power to disperse illusions . It is probable too , that he who labours under the errors I have described , might feel the power of truth in a writer of another age , yet ...
... progress of so- ciety , and will derive from illusion itself the power to disperse illusions . It is probable too , that he who labours under the errors I have described , might feel the power of truth in a writer of another age , yet ...
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... progress , will , in fact , our progress be retarded . Deeming , then , that in all ages an ardent mind will be baffled and led astray in the manner under contemplation , though in various degrees , I shall at present con- tent myself ...
... progress , will , in fact , our progress be retarded . Deeming , then , that in all ages an ardent mind will be baffled and led astray in the manner under contemplation , though in various degrees , I shall at present con- tent myself ...
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... progress of the species towards a point of unattainable perfection . If the present age do indeed transcend the past in what is most beneficial and honourable , he that perceives this , being in no error , has no cause for complaint ...
... progress of the species towards a point of unattainable perfection . If the present age do indeed transcend the past in what is most beneficial and honourable , he that perceives this , being in no error , has no cause for complaint ...
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Стр. 197 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Стр. 198 - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Стр. 121 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true: a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Стр. 197 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Стр. 253 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Стр. 198 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea, Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Стр. 142 - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
Стр. 184 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Стр. 121 - I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
Стр. 112 - Wheeson week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor— thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.