Five Occasional Lectures: Delivered in MontrealJ. Lovell, 1859 - 118 sider |
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... poets , which he had read with delight and avidity . " Here the Lecture - room and the Library were brought into due and proper connection , and by after study the teaching of the passing hour was carried on . It may not be expected ...
... poets , which he had read with delight and avidity . " Here the Lecture - room and the Library were brought into due and proper connection , and by after study the teaching of the passing hour was carried on . It may not be expected ...
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... poet would say " Quid leges sine moribus vanæ profi ciunt ? " " What profit are inoperative laws without morality ? " And how can we hope for morals without religion ? and what is religion but submission to the law and will of God ? But ...
... poet would say " Quid leges sine moribus vanæ profi ciunt ? " " What profit are inoperative laws without morality ? " And how can we hope for morals without religion ? and what is religion but submission to the law and will of God ? But ...
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... poet , in his conversation with Rasselas , when he tells him that , " there is no part of history so generally useful , as that which relates to the progress of the human mind , the gradual improvement of the reason , the successive ...
... poet , in his conversation with Rasselas , when he tells him that , " there is no part of history so generally useful , as that which relates to the progress of the human mind , the gradual improvement of the reason , the successive ...
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... poetic fire which constitute their highest charm and excellence . Here on this side the Atlantic there must be , for many years , great disadvantages in forming a correct Taste in most of the Fine Arts from want of facility of access to ...
... poetic fire which constitute their highest charm and excellence . Here on this side the Atlantic there must be , for many years , great disadvantages in forming a correct Taste in most of the Fine Arts from want of facility of access to ...
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... poets : rather , however , by way of anecdote , than as entering upon any general disquisition respecting them , but still giving occasionally a few quotations for the purpose ... poet . When I first began to be interested in such matters 72.
... poets : rather , however , by way of anecdote , than as entering upon any general disquisition respecting them , but still giving occasionally a few quotations for the purpose ... poet . When I first began to be interested in such matters 72.
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Side 92 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! O, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away!
Side 107 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Side 110 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Side 113 - Scripture is not yet understood, so if it ever comes to be understood, before the ' restitution of all things,' and without miraculous interposition, — it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and liberty ; and by particular persons attending to, comparing and pursuing, intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.
Side 114 - Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before- And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several...
Side 74 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Side 13 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Side 75 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now — " He hung his head; each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept!
Side 98 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Side 94 - There's; one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed — Greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, Lo ! death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate.