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Página 105
If there is any period one would desire to be born in , - is it not the age of
Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side , and admit of being
compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ;
when the ...
If there is any period one would desire to be born in , - is it not the age of
Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side , and admit of being
compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ;
when the ...
Página 131
I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office ... On this
occasion , any complaisance would be criminal , which told you , whose hope
and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ , that the faith of Christ is
preached .
I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office ... On this
occasion , any complaisance would be criminal , which told you , whose hope
and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ , that the faith of Christ is
preached .
Página 136
Would he urge people to a godly way of living ; — and can'he ask a fellow -
creature to come to Sabbath meetings , when he and they all know what is the
poor uttermost they can · hope for therein ? Will he invite them privately to the
Lord's ...
Would he urge people to a godly way of living ; — and can'he ask a fellow -
creature to come to Sabbath meetings , when he and they all know what is the
poor uttermost they can · hope for therein ? Will he invite them privately to the
Lord's ...
Página 138
... from the religious meetings . I have heard a devout person , who prized the
Sabbath , say in bitterness of heart , “ On Sundays , it seems wicked to go to
church . ” And the motive , that holds the best there , is now only å hope and a
waiting .
... from the religious meetings . I have heard a devout person , who prized the
Sabbath , say in bitterness of heart , “ On Sundays , it seems wicked to go to
church . ” And the motive , that holds the best there , is now only å hope and a
waiting .
Página 139
The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds , and age is without
honor . Society lives to trifles , and when men die , we do not mention them . And
now , my brothers , you will ask , What in these desponding days can be done by
...
The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds , and age is without
honor . Society lives to trifles , and when men die , we do not mention them . And
now , my brothers , you will ask , What in these desponding days can be done by
...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
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Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.