Atheism in Philosophy: And Other EssaysRoberts brothers, 1884 - 390 páginas |
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Página 127 - judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Página 39 - Look thou not on Beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming ; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens ; Speak not when the people listens; Stop thine ear against the singer ; From the red gold keep thy finger; Vacant heart and hand and eye; — Easy live, and quiet die.
Página 176 - his soul, and gushed in fierce torrents from his eyes. He cast himself on the ground in the utter abandonment of helpless woe. It was the death-agony of the carnal will, dying to self and sin. And he lay as one dead, his only last thought: " Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this
Página 109 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand. After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Página 126 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities and jests.
Página 254 - of truths — those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary, and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent, and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, we may discover the reason of it by analysis, resolving it into simpler ideas and truths, until we arrive at those which are ultimate.
Página 268 - is to say, the most perfect state possible, under the most perfect of monarchs. 86. This City of God, this truly universal monarchy, is a moral world within the natural; and it is the most exalted and the most divine among the works of God. It is in this that the glory of God most truly consists,
Página 257 - This is true only of contingent truths, the principle of which is fitness, or the choice of the best; whereas necessary truths depend solely on his understanding, and are its internal object. 47. Thus God alone is the primitive Unity, or the simple original substance of which all the created or derived Monads are the
Página 165 - speculation that could comfort him in that extreme. And so he died in the simple faith of the Church. The soul of Augustine was dissolved in boundless sorrow. " My heart," he says, " was utterly darkened, and whatever I beheld was death. My birthplace was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness.
Página 90 - All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend to the earth's surface in lines perpendicular to it. They are therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, the direct or indirect result of a consciousness and a will existing somewhere, though beyond our power to trace, which force we term gravity.