Things You Ought to Know about Yourself: Or, Sketches of Human Physiology1877 - 104 sivua |
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... eternity . Say did these fingers delve the mine , Or with its envied rubies shine ? To hew the rock , or wear the gem , Can little now avail to them . But if the page of truth they sought , Or comfort to the mourner brought , These ...
... eternity . Say did these fingers delve the mine , Or with its envied rubies shine ? To hew the rock , or wear the gem , Can little now avail to them . But if the page of truth they sought , Or comfort to the mourner brought , These ...
Sivu 98
... , that the soul , which is capable of such immense perfection , and of receiving new improvements to all eternity , 1 A superior nature . shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it 98 Things you Ought to Know .
... , that the soul , which is capable of such immense perfection , and of receiving new improvements to all eternity , 1 A superior nature . shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it 98 Things you Ought to Know .
Sivu 100
... eternity . " There is not , in my opinion , a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion , than the per- petual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a 100 Things you ...
... eternity . " There is not , in my opinion , a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion , than the per- petual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature , without ever arriving at a 100 Things you ...
Sivu 101
... eternity , that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge , carries in it some- thing wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a pro- spect pleasing to ...
... eternity , that she will be still adding virtue to virtue , and knowledge to knowledge , carries in it some- thing wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man . Nay , it must be a pro- spect pleasing to ...
Sivu 102
... eternity , without a possibility of touching it ; and can there be a thought so sup- porting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ? " 1 We cannot ...
... eternity , without a possibility of touching it ; and can there be a thought so sup- porting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ? " 1 We cannot ...
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Sivu 98 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence, of a better nature than his own could never attain. i io OF ATHEISM. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Sivu 59 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Sivu 60 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Sivu 97 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Sivu 60 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with thee.
Sivu 97 - God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man, than by this, that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion,. as if they fainted in it within themselves...
Sivu 98 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it...
Sivu 98 - Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is...
Sivu 13 - Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat, This space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot? Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear, Have left one trace of record here.