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 glory 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 238 - 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 123 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate...
Página 205 - 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 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 260 - 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 129 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 96 - So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Página 112 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 3 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?