The Works of William E. Channing, Bind 1James Munroe, 1845 |
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... give to the same thoughts . In nature , what an immense dissimilarity do we observe in organized bodies , which consist of the same parts or elements , but in which these are found in great diversity of proportions ! So , to learn what ...
... give to the same thoughts . In nature , what an immense dissimilarity do we observe in organized bodies , which consist of the same parts or elements , but in which these are found in great diversity of proportions ! So , to learn what ...
Side vi
William Ellery Channing. and feelings predominate , stand out most distinctly , and give a hue and impulse to the common actions of his mind ? What are his great ideas ? These form the man , and by their truth and dignity he is very much ...
William Ellery Channing. and feelings predominate , stand out most distinctly , and give a hue and impulse to the common actions of his mind ? What are his great ideas ? These form the man , and by their truth and dignity he is very much ...
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... give due importance to our own free moral nature , is no very easy work . But it must be done . Man's free activity is as important to religion as God's infinity . In the king- dom of Heaven , the moral power of the subject is as es ...
... give due importance to our own free moral nature , is no very easy work . But it must be done . Man's free activity is as important to religion as God's infinity . In the king- dom of Heaven , the moral power of the subject is as es ...
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... give thanks for , the more he owes to the free gift of his Creator . No matter what grandeur or freedom we ascribe to our powers , if we maintain , as we ought , that they are bestowed , inspired , sustained by God ; that he is their ...
... give thanks for , the more he owes to the free gift of his Creator . No matter what grandeur or freedom we ascribe to our powers , if we maintain , as we ought , that they are bestowed , inspired , sustained by God ; that he is their ...
Side xvii
... give birth to a system of unmeasured , unmitigated evil , dependence on him would be any thing but a ground of reverence . We should hate it , and long to flee from it into nonexistence . The great question , I repeat it , is , ' what ...
... give birth to a system of unmeasured , unmitigated evil , dependence on him would be any thing but a ground of reverence . We should hate it , and long to flee from it into nonexistence . The great question , I repeat it , is , ' what ...
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Side 32 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Side 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Side 28 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Side 13 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Side 50 - O Adam, one almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection; one first matter all, Indued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Side 50 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower...
Side 320 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Side 52 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Side 14 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Side 30 - Then amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty measures, to sing and celebrate thy divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages...