The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue, and Truth, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - Conduct of life |
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... universal sense of right and wrong , which , in a certain degree , all intuitively divine , even should no intercourse with each other have existed . " " It is much less what we do than what we think , " 10 [ сн . THE LOVER'S SEAT .
... universal sense of right and wrong , which , in a certain degree , all intuitively divine , even should no intercourse with each other have existed . " " It is much less what we do than what we think , " 10 [ сн . THE LOVER'S SEAT .
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... universal fact . Can you explain , without trampling on common notions , the idea and word ' disinterestedness , ' by reference to self - interest ? Com- mon sense invincibly rejects such an attempt . Poets have no system ; they address ...
... universal fact . Can you explain , without trampling on common notions , the idea and word ' disinterestedness , ' by reference to self - interest ? Com- mon sense invincibly rejects such an attempt . Poets have no system ; they address ...
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... universal life , and on that account is perhaps not properly to be despised . It is nevertheless unde- serving of deliberate thought or earnest attention ; although , " he adds with a boldness arising from his belief that the audience ...
... universal life , and on that account is perhaps not properly to be despised . It is nevertheless unde- serving of deliberate thought or earnest attention ; although , " he adds with a boldness arising from his belief that the audience ...
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... universal order . St. Augustin refuted him with moderation , for the fact was there was a certain mixture of truth in what he had said . We are taught to believe by religious writers " that God , who can extract good from evil by a ...
... universal order . St. Augustin refuted him with moderation , for the fact was there was a certain mixture of truth in what he had said . We are taught to believe by religious writers " that God , who can extract good from evil by a ...
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... universal censor of public manners during the early and middle ages : yet the Christian law , which denounced what is evil , was not considered by that society as inculcating any savage per- secution of the fallen , or a renouncement of ...
... universal censor of public manners during the early and middle ages : yet the Christian law , which denounced what is evil , was not considered by that society as inculcating any savage per- secution of the fallen , or a renouncement of ...
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Page 137 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Page 183 - It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century ; — But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men...
Page 147 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 120 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 51 - MY little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
Page 168 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 335 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Page 284 - She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise ; For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
Page 137 - And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 146 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.