The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 310 páginas |
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The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life George Angier Gordon Visualização completa - 1893 |
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apostle argument Aristotle Arthur Henry Hallam atheism beautiful become behold believe body character Christ Christian city of God conditional immortality conscience consciousness conviction Crito dead disciples divine dream duty earth Edward Caird ence endless eternal ethical everlasting evil existence fact faith feeling forever future gathered God's heart heaven Hebrew prophets highest hope human idea ideal immortality individual infinite insight inspired intellect Isaiah Israel Jehovah Jesus light living look Lord man's mankind master meaning mind moral order moral universe nation nature ness never Odysseus outward Paul perish Phædo Pharisee philosopher Plato poem poet presence Psalm quadrupeds question race reality reason resurrection revelation revival from death righteous Roman senate sense sensuous Socrates sorrow soul spirit sublime suffering supreme Tennyson terrible thee things thinkers thou thought tion true trust truth universe utterance utterly vast vindication vision whole words worth
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Página 236 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem; and to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven; and to God the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Página 203 - I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day : and not only to me, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.
Página 101 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Página 126 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Página 99 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 258 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Página 10 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Página 124 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice "believe no more" And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd "I have felt.
Página 127 - They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man...
Página 102 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...