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Page 164 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 340 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Page 186 - Come, lest this heart should, cold and cast away, Die ere the guest adored she entertain — Lest eyes which never saw Thine earthly day Should miss Thy heavenly reign.
Page 322 - As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 13 - Innumerable, pitiless, passionless eyes, Cold fires, yet with power to burn and brand His nothingness into man.
Page 86 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 284 - This odd combination of Spinoza and Buchner, of an outworn idealistic determinism, with an equally outworn materialism, is not likely to keep any lengthened hold on modern thinking. Science, for one thing, is too dead against it. An a priori philosophy which denies progression because it contradicts an unproved abstract idea, has little chance against an ever accumulating body of facts which spell progression and nothing else. Evolution becomes here, as against contradictors of this order, the modern...
Page 53 - It is enough to have bread, and to live in the faith of Christ, even as I do here, for I live humbly, nor do I care for the life nor the honours of this world.
Page 242 - Nature ingeniously prepared a shrill, artificial voice, which spoke in season and out of season, enough, and more than enough, what will ever be the idea of the cities of the plain concerning those who live alone among the mountains; of the frivolous concerning the grave; of the gregarious concerning the recluse...
Page 221 - Happiness or unhappiness depends on the nature of the object whereon we fix our affection. Strife, envy, hatred, and fear are the constant penalty of loving perishable things. ' But love towards a thing eternal and infinite feeds the mind with pure joy, and is wholly free from sorrow ; this is to be greatly desired and strenuously sought for.