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... period , this theology became corrupted through the negligence and confusion of its votaries , then such of his disciples as happened to live where it was thus degraded and deformed , found it necessary to unfold it more fully , in ...
... period , this theology became corrupted through the negligence and confusion of its votaries , then such of his disciples as happened to live where it was thus degraded and deformed , found it necessary to unfold it more fully , in ...
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... period of 5000 years . In this sense , therefore , the development of great philosophical systems is a sign of a decline of some kind ; but it is an inevitable decline which takes place in individuals as well as in nations , the ...
... period of 5000 years . In this sense , therefore , the development of great philosophical systems is a sign of a decline of some kind ; but it is an inevitable decline which takes place in individuals as well as in nations , the ...
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... period who had devoted them- selves to physics - i.e . , the nature , growth , and constitution of the world , which they thought could be obtained by inspection - had shown that all such knowledge is uncertain . Socrates left the ...
... period who had devoted them- selves to physics - i.e . , the nature , growth , and constitution of the world , which they thought could be obtained by inspection - had shown that all such knowledge is uncertain . Socrates left the ...
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... period centres round middle age , may not the human race have reached its crowning summit in the centre of its career ? The special features in Christ's solution of the world's problem , in distinction to those of others , have been ...
... period centres round middle age , may not the human race have reached its crowning summit in the centre of its career ? The special features in Christ's solution of the world's problem , in distinction to those of others , have been ...
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... period of development girls spend years subject to this kind of influence . It is therefore no matter for surprise that we now breed by thousands a type of girl who is conspicuously deficient in the sense of racial function . I met ...
... period of development girls spend years subject to this kind of influence . It is therefore no matter for surprise that we now breed by thousands a type of girl who is conspicuously deficient in the sense of racial function . I met ...
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Page 263 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination — What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 269 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine...
Page 268 - In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: Far, far around shall those dark-cluster'd trees Fledge the wild-ridged mountains steep by steep ; And there by zephyrs...
Page 145 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Page 268 - With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same: And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
Page 258 - Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...
Page 281 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled And still his...
Page 581 - Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night : — Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light.
Page 419 - France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? I see now that the loneliness of God is His strength: what would He be if He listened to your jealous little counsels? Well, my loneliness shall be my strength too: it is better to be alone with God: His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare, and dare, and dare, until I die.
Page 283 - As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best...