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... expression of thought by language . In defining the range of it , we do not inquire what authors and speakers have written and spoken according to one standard or another , by the rules of one authority or another , to the taste of one ...
... expression of thought by language . In defining the range of it , we do not inquire what authors and speakers have written and spoken according to one standard or another , by the rules of one authority or another , to the taste of one ...
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... expression has . The pulpit is identified with the people in the very groundwork of its construction . It stands in among the people . It exists for the people . It depends for all its legitimate uses and successes upon the sympathies ...
... expression has . The pulpit is identified with the people in the very groundwork of its construction . It stands in among the people . It exists for the people . It depends for all its legitimate uses and successes upon the sympathies ...
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... expression of the facts as this , if he had not seen evidence of the need of it , and more , among the clergy of which he was an honored representative . ( 1 ) But this view is enforced by a deeper principle than any demand of classes ...
... expression of the facts as this , if he had not seen evidence of the need of it , and more , among the clergy of which he was an honored representative . ( 1 ) But this view is enforced by a deeper principle than any demand of classes ...
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... expression in the language . They will bear almost any amount of commonplace in the sermons of a clergyman who so puts his soul into that incomparable production as to make them feel his heart in equal pulses with their own . In our own ...
... expression in the language . They will bear almost any amount of commonplace in the sermons of a clergyman who so puts his soul into that incomparable production as to make them feel his heart in equal pulses with their own . In our own ...
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... expression in any other way . The refine- ment , and the culture , and the wealth , and the noble birth of England , never found the man out till the rudeness , and the ignorance , and the plebeian tastes , and the poverty of England ...
... expression in any other way . The refine- ment , and the culture , and the wealth , and the noble birth of England , never found the man out till the rudeness , and the ignorance , and the plebeian tastes , and the poverty of England ...
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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.