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... principles were confirmed , and at length ob- tained an almost complete command over all his appetites and passions . They subdued the impe- tuosity of his temper , and extinguished his inordi- nate ambition so entirely , that he who ...
... principles were confirmed , and at length ob- tained an almost complete command over all his appetites and passions . They subdued the impe- tuosity of his temper , and extinguished his inordi- nate ambition so entirely , that he who ...
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... principles of Christianity . When we are expressly told by our Lord himself , that to love God with all our heart , and soul , and mind , and strength , is the first and great commandment : -When we acknow- ledge that God created us ...
... principles of Christianity . When we are expressly told by our Lord himself , that to love God with all our heart , and soul , and mind , and strength , is the first and great commandment : -When we acknow- ledge that God created us ...
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... principle , not sentiment ; at least , the senti- ment overflowed from a deep spring of principle . And , in the formation and application of his principles , he made the fullest use of the uncommon powers of understanding which he pos ...
... principle , not sentiment ; at least , the senti- ment overflowed from a deep spring of principle . And , in the formation and application of his principles , he made the fullest use of the uncommon powers of understanding which he pos ...
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... principles were strict , and his practice conformable to them ; yet without any puritanical austerity either in con- duct or deportment . He enjoyed harmless mirth , and partook , in moderation , of innocent amuse- ments ; and thus ...
... principles were strict , and his practice conformable to them ; yet without any puritanical austerity either in con- duct or deportment . He enjoyed harmless mirth , and partook , in moderation , of innocent amuse- ments ; and thus ...
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... principle , could be discerned in the application of it . But here opinion and prejudice inter- pose ; and on no subject , perhaps , are the plans proposed more widely dissentient . Nor can this be matter of SELECT PIECES IN PROSE On ...
... principle , could be discerned in the application of it . But here opinion and prejudice inter- pose ; and on no subject , perhaps , are the plans proposed more widely dissentient . Nor can this be matter of SELECT PIECES IN PROSE On ...
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Page 189 - Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd." and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Page 188 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 207 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 189 - Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
Page 190 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 188 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 145 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without: and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Page 176 - ... transference of the name of the first to the second ; and that, in consequence of the other affinities which connect the remaining objects together, the same name may pass in succession from B to C ; from C to D ; and from D to E ? In this manner a common appellation will arise between A and E, although the two objects may, in their nature and properties, be so widely distant from each other, that no stretch of imagination can conceive how the thoughts were led from the former to the latter.
Page 185 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 147 - As for our senses, by them we have the knowledge only of our sensations, ideas, or those things that are immediately perceived by sense, call them what you will; but they do not inform us that things exist without the mind, or unperceived, like to those which are perceived.