Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a Short Time Previous to His Lordship's DeathJohn Murray, 1830 - 461 páginas |
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... virtue , whose testimony to the truth of Christianity has been no less unanimous , than it has been unequivocal , and decided . But if I lay this aside , partly as being collateral , and partly because it is a topic which at present you ...
... virtue , whose testimony to the truth of Christianity has been no less unanimous , than it has been unequivocal , and decided . But if I lay this aside , partly as being collateral , and partly because it is a topic which at present you ...
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... idea of a bene- volent Creator . He added , that wherever he had been , he had found vice and misery predominant , and that real happiness and virtue were rarely , if ever , to be seen . He had made it WITH LORD BYRON . 55.
... idea of a bene- volent Creator . He added , that wherever he had been , he had found vice and misery predominant , and that real happiness and virtue were rarely , if ever , to be seen . He had made it WITH LORD BYRON . 55.
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... virtue and piety . I doubted if those miserable creatures , whom his lordship had met with , were so exclusively wretched as they repre- sented themselves . They would naturally mag- nify their evil state , in order to obtain his lord ...
... virtue and piety . I doubted if those miserable creatures , whom his lordship had met with , were so exclusively wretched as they repre- sented themselves . They would naturally mag- nify their evil state , in order to obtain his lord ...
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... intrepidity of mind which brings to remembrance the magnanimity of the Puritans , accuses all the poets of having done little good in their generation to the cause of virtue and reli- gion 156 CONVERSATIONS ON RELIGION.
... intrepidity of mind which brings to remembrance the magnanimity of the Puritans , accuses all the poets of having done little good in their generation to the cause of virtue and reli- gion 156 CONVERSATIONS ON RELIGION.
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... virtue and reli- gion ; that their writings leave us nothing to ad- mire , except the mere eloquence and force of poetry , as their sentiments are often vicious , licentious , and immoral ; and with regard to Shakspeare the admiration ...
... virtue and reli- gion ; that their writings leave us nothing to ad- mire , except the mere eloquence and force of poetry , as their sentiments are often vicious , licentious , and immoral ; and with regard to Shakspeare the admiration ...
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Página 293 - ... misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 105 - And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Página 106 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation,...
Página 103 - Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Página 90 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Página 103 - Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Página 90 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Página 90 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Página 106 - Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks ; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Página 292 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...