Studies of Religious History and CriticismCarleton, 1864 - 394 páginas |
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Studies of Religious History and Criticism Ernest Renan,Octavius Brooks Frothingham Visualização completa - 1864 |
Studies of religious history and criticism Ernest Renan,Octavius Brooks Frothingham Visualização completa - 1864 |
Studies of Religious History and Criticism Ernest Renan,Octavius Brooks Frothingham Visualização completa - 1864 |
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Página 156 - ... religion, philosophy, the duty of the Indo-European nations is to seek after nice combinations; the harmony of opposite things; the complexity so totally unknown among the Semitic nations, whose organization has always been of a disheartening and fatal simplicity. In art and poetry, what do we owe them ? In art, nothing. These tribes have but little of the artist; our art comes entirely from Greece. In poetry, nevertheless, without being their tributaries, we have with them more than one bond...
Página xxxiv - And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, " Lazarus, come forth.'" And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them,
Página 229 - Forster published two thick volumes, which enchanted the English reverends, to make out that Mahomet was the little horn of the he-goat that figures in the eighth chapter of Daniel, and that the Pope was the great horn.
Página 189 - I should prefer the words legend and legendary narratives, which, while they concede a large influence to the working of opinion, allow the action and the personal character of Jesus to stand out in their completeness.
Página xxi - SEPT. 24, 1861. DO you remember, from your rest in the bosom of God, those long days at Ghazir, where, alone with you, I wrote these pages, Inspired by the scenes we had just traversed? Silent by...
Página xxii - You sleep now in the land of Adonis, near the holy Byblus and the sacred waters where the women of the ancient mysteries came to mingle their tears. Reveal to me, O my good genius, to me whom you loved, those truths which master Death, prevent us from fearing, and make us almost love it...
Página 391 - With directions for self-culture. A sensible and instructive work, that ought to be in the hands of every one who wishes to be either an agreeable talker or listener I2mo. cloth, $1.50 THE ART OF AMUSING.
Página 54 - Everything around them has been renewed; the cathedral alone remains, a little defaced as high aa a man can reach, but profoundly rooted in the soil. True as it is that in the matter of religious creation the ages have resolved on denying themselves the privilege they so freely grant to the centuries past; it is as true that rational science, being by its nature the prerogative of a small number, cannot, in the actual condition of society, bear upon the credence of the world with a decisive weight....
Página 161 - The vital centre was established to which humanity must for centuries refer its hopes, its consolations, its motives for welldoing. The most copious source of virtue that the sympathetic touch of a sublime conscience ever caused to well up in the heart of man was opened. The lofty thought of Jesus, hardly comprehended by his disciples, suffered many lapses. Christianity, notwithstanding, prevailed from the very first, and prevailed supremely over other existing religions. These religions, which pretended...
Página 286 - ... thorns ? This kind of austere seduction is exercised by those only who work with real conviction. Lacking that vivid, deep, sympathetic ardor which was one of the secrets of Luther's success, lacking the charm, the perilous, languishing tenderness of Francis of Sales, Calvin succeeded, in an age and in a country which called for a reaction towards Christianity, simply because he was THE MOST CHRISTIAN MAN OF HIS GENERATION.