History of English Literature, Volume 2Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... conscience only . He regarded this southern civilization with the eyes of a man of the north , and understood its vices only , like Ascham , who said . he had seen in Venice " more libertie to sinne in Ix dayes than ever I heard tell of ...
... conscience only . He regarded this southern civilization with the eyes of a man of the north , and understood its vices only , like Ascham , who said . he had seen in Venice " more libertie to sinne in Ix dayes than ever I heard tell of ...
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... Conscience is an evil beast , who arms man against himself . ' The Italians are either epicureans or super- stitious . The people fear St. Anthony and St. Sebastian more than Christ , because of the plagues they send . This is why ...
... Conscience is an evil beast , who arms man against himself . ' The Italians are either epicureans or super- stitious . The people fear St. Anthony and St. Sebastian more than Christ , because of the plagues they send . This is why ...
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Hippolyte Taine. are at the same time more under the influence of conscience , firmer in the observance of their word , more disposed to self- denial and sacrifice . Such their climate has made them ; and such they have continued , from ...
Hippolyte Taine. are at the same time more under the influence of conscience , firmer in the observance of their word , more disposed to self- denial and sacrifice . Such their climate has made them ; and such they have continued , from ...
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... conscience , and from the days of the apostles man has not had a more sub- lime and complete conception.3 For conscience , like other things , has its poem ; by a natural invasion the all - powerful idea of justice overflows from the ...
... conscience , and from the days of the apostles man has not had a more sub- lime and complete conception.3 For conscience , like other things , has its poem ; by a natural invasion the all - powerful idea of justice overflows from the ...
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... conscience . I shuddered to hear them ; I told myself , if God is just , He will punish me . " For as soon as the conscience discovers again the idea of the perfect model , the smallest fail- Calvin , the logician of the Reforma- tion ...
... conscience . I shuddered to hear them ; I told myself , if God is just , He will punish me . " For as soon as the conscience discovers again the idea of the perfect model , the smallest fail- Calvin , the logician of the Reforma- tion ...
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Page 24 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 309 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 344 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Page 120 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 107 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. But, when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 101 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 122 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 41 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Page 357 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 358 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...