An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College: August 25, 1835, Volume 15, Issue 4 |
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... moral creation begins with light also . Chosen servants of Provi- dence are raised up to speak the word ; power is given to political or religious reformers to pronounce the decree ; it spreads like the elemental beam , by the thousand ...
... moral creation begins with light also . Chosen servants of Provi- dence are raised up to speak the word ; power is given to political or religious reformers to pronounce the decree ; it spreads like the elemental beam , by the thousand ...
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... moral , physical , exact , and critical , have carried and are carrying the glorious banner of true science , into regions of investigation wholly unexplored in elder times . Let me not be mistaken . I mean not arrogantly to detract ...
... moral , physical , exact , and critical , have carried and are carrying the glorious banner of true science , into regions of investigation wholly unexplored in elder times . Let me not be mistaken . I mean not arrogantly to detract ...
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... morals ; —and in short , to every thing that belongs to the improvement of man , there is yet a field of investigation broad enough to satisfy the most eager thirst for knowledge , and diversified enough to suit every variety of taste ...
... morals ; —and in short , to every thing that belongs to the improvement of man , there is yet a field of investigation broad enough to satisfy the most eager thirst for knowledge , and diversified enough to suit every variety of taste ...
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... moral world , sometimes permits the great discoverers fully to enjoy their fame ; sometimes to catch but a glimpse of the extent of their achievements ; and sometimes sends them dejected and heart - broken to the grave , unconscious of ...
... moral world , sometimes permits the great discoverers fully to enjoy their fame ; sometimes to catch but a glimpse of the extent of their achievements ; and sometimes sends them dejected and heart - broken to the grave , unconscious of ...
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... morals . In some countries there may be more and in some less of this latent intellectual power ; -latent I call it , in reference not to ... moral growth . Eminent talent " " and distinguished attainment are sometimes connected with ob- 29.
... morals . In some countries there may be more and in some less of this latent intellectual power ; -latent I call it , in reference not to ... moral growth . Eminent talent " " and distinguished attainment are sometimes connected with ob- 29.
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Page 25 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Page 9 - Schoolmen; who were generally of the contrary part, and whose writings were altogether in a different style and form; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid circuit of speech, without regard to the pureness, pleasantness, and (as I may call it) lawfulness of the phrase or word.
Page 26 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 8 - ... enforced to awake all antiquity, and to call former times to his succors to make a party against the present time; so that the ancient authors, both in divinity and in humanity, which had long time slept in libraries, began generally to be read and revolved.
Page 25 - ... to his friends for publication. The day, at last, has come, on which it is to be ushered into the world. It is the twenty-fourth of May, 1543. On that day, — the effect, no doubt, of the intense excitement of his mind, operating upon an exhausted frame, — an effusion of blood brings him to the gates of the grave. His last hour has come ; he lies stretched upon the couch, from which he will never rise, in his apartment at the Canonry at Frauenberg, in East Prussia.
Page 25 - ... the first printed copy of his immortal treatise. He knows that in that book he contradicts all that had ever been distinctly taught by former philosophers ; he knows that he has rebelled against the sway of Ptolemy, which the scientific world had acknowledged for a thousand years ; he knows that the popular mind will be shocked by his innovations ; he knows that the attempt will be made to press even religion into the service against him ; but he knows that his book is true. He is dying, but...
Page 25 - ... astronomical instruments; and around him are gathered his sorrowing disciples. The door of the apartment opens; the eye of the departing sage is turned to see who enters: it is a friend, who brings him the first printed copy of his immortal treatise. He knows that in that book he contradicts all that had ever been distinctly taught by former philosophers; he knows that he has -rebelled against the sway of Ptolemy, which the scientific world had acknowledged for a thousand years; he knows that...
Page 8 - Martin Luther, conducted (no doubt) by an higher Providence, but in discourse of reason, finding what a province he had undertaken against the bishop of Rome and the degenerate traditions of the church...
Page 9 - ... travail in the languages original, wherein those authors did write, for the better understanding of those authors, and the better advantage of pressing and applying their words. And thereof grew again a delight in their manner of style and phrase, and an admiration of that kind of writing ; which was...
Page 9 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.