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... experienced the common lot of humanity , that as soon as one trouble is surmounted , another arises . Her heart still throbbed with painful emotions of unkindness towards heretics in general , though she had learned to make exceptions ...
... experienced the common lot of humanity , that as soon as one trouble is surmounted , another arises . Her heart still throbbed with painful emotions of unkindness towards heretics in general , though she had learned to make exceptions ...
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... experience to expound this pithy saying into the truth that every virtuous labor is easy in proportion as it approaches perfection ; and that when a work is ascertained to be virtuous , increased pleasure in it , so far from being a ...
... experience to expound this pithy saying into the truth that every virtuous labor is easy in proportion as it approaches perfection ; and that when a work is ascertained to be virtuous , increased pleasure in it , so far from being a ...
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... in the presence of the officers of the prison , a feeling more like despair than he had imagined he could ever experience lay heavy at his heart . His anticipations exceeded the truth , as he acknowledged to 42 TALES .
... in the presence of the officers of the prison , a feeling more like despair than he had imagined he could ever experience lay heavy at his heart . His anticipations exceeded the truth , as he acknowledged to 42 TALES .
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... " said his friend to him one day , that you have a horror of solitude , as you well may after so long an experience of it . I never find you alone and absorbed in study , as in old times . Does the ugly 5 * SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY . 53.
... " said his friend to him one day , that you have a horror of solitude , as you well may after so long an experience of it . I never find you alone and absorbed in study , as in old times . Does the ugly 5 * SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY . 53.
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... experience of the next nine years spent in society ? " " If I can obtain as distinct an apprehension of some other truth of equal importance , " replied Helmer , “ I shall not think that my time has been lost , or my experience wasted ...
... experience of the next nine years spent in society ? " " If I can obtain as distinct an apprehension of some other truth of equal importance , " replied Helmer , “ I shall not think that my time has been lost , or my experience wasted ...
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Page 221 - He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God.
Page 221 - And one of the malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself, and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Page 92 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love and nothing for reward, O why should heavenly God to men have such regard *." This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 222 - Christ, save Thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And He said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Page 92 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.
Page 98 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 207 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
Page 258 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 334 - It is absolutely necessary for it to be exercised on spiritual objects, if it is to attain its perfect illumination, and bring out that purity of heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own sake alone. 81. Or is the human species never to arrive at this highest step of illumination and purity? — Never? 82. Never? — Let me not think this blasphemy, All Merciful! Education has its goal, in the race, no less than in the individual. That which is educated is educated for a purpose.
Page 236 - For aught we can know a priori, matter may contain the source or spring of order originally within itself, as well as mind does ; and there is no more difficulty in conceiving, that the several elements, from an internal unknown cause, may fall into the most exquisite arrangement, than to conceive that their ideas, in the great universal mind, from a like internal unknown cause, fall into that arrangement.