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... german to that reverend greenhorn . Men of the world feel it to be refreshing when an able preacher breaks loose from the hereditary conventionalisms of the clerical guild , and thinks and talks and dresses and acts as they do . This ...
... german to that reverend greenhorn . Men of the world feel it to be refreshing when an able preacher breaks loose from the hereditary conventionalisms of the clerical guild , and thinks and talks and dresses and acts as they do . This ...
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... German thought in both the Church and the State , have been driven , in defense of social order , to sustain the government in the establishment of , with one exception , the most rigid military despotism in Europe . In this they have ...
... German thought in both the Church and the State , have been driven , in defense of social order , to sustain the government in the establishment of , with one exception , the most rigid military despotism in Europe . In this they have ...
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... German atheists to - day have this to say for themselves , that all the religion they know any thing about is a religion of aristocrats and bayonets . Who can compute the dead weight which Christianity must carry in such an unnatural ...
... German atheists to - day have this to say for themselves , that all the religion they know any thing about is a religion of aristocrats and bayonets . Who can compute the dead weight which Christianity must carry in such an unnatural ...
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... German literature , says , " Bad books have their season , as vermin have . They come in swarms , and perish before we are aware . How many thousands of books have gone the way of all paper , or are now moldering in our libraries ! " We ...
... German literature , says , " Bad books have their season , as vermin have . They come in swarms , and perish before we are aware . How many thousands of books have gone the way of all paper , or are now moldering in our libraries ! " We ...
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... German , only three ; and in the English , but four . Of course , opinions would differ in the assignment of individuals to groups so small as these ; but they would not differ as to the main assertion . I do not assume to speak ex ...
... German , only three ; and in the English , but four . Of course , opinions would differ in the assignment of individuals to groups so small as these ; but they would not differ as to the main assertion . I do not assume to speak ex ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.