The Bible a Classic: A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered at the Third Annual Commencement of Howard College, Marion, Ala., July 25th, 1850 |
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... whole thoughts and imaginations of Christian people . By means of this symbolical spirit , and consequent propensity to allegory , the Bible has come to exert the same influence upon the poetry , and all the imitative arts of the middle ...
... whole thoughts and imaginations of Christian people . By means of this symbolical spirit , and consequent propensity to allegory , the Bible has come to exert the same influence upon the poetry , and all the imitative arts of the middle ...
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... whole domain of modern literature . At this fountain Tasso , Dante and Milton drank , a Shak- speare caught a clearer view of the passions of the human heart , as mirrored from its truthful pages , and Byron sipped with unhallowed lips ...
... whole domain of modern literature . At this fountain Tasso , Dante and Milton drank , a Shak- speare caught a clearer view of the passions of the human heart , as mirrored from its truthful pages , and Byron sipped with unhallowed lips ...
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... whole fabric of stoical mor- ality , though decorated with all the ingenuity and taste of Grecian art and magnificence , is based on erroneous views of nature and of man . It And what were its results ? The austere self - command it ...
... whole fabric of stoical mor- ality , though decorated with all the ingenuity and taste of Grecian art and magnificence , is based on erroneous views of nature and of man . It And what were its results ? The austere self - command it ...
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... whole world as " The only star By which the bark of man can navigate The sea of life and gain the coast of bliss Securely ; " and shall we not for this reason also , thoroughly incorporate it into the whole scheme of education ? The ...
... whole world as " The only star By which the bark of man can navigate The sea of life and gain the coast of bliss Securely ; " and shall we not for this reason also , thoroughly incorporate it into the whole scheme of education ? The ...
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... whole life . The moral page of man's mental constitution is as much a blank as the intellectual , and it is the business of education to fill up the one , as well as the other . The work , too , must go on simultaneously from the ...
... whole life . The moral page of man's mental constitution is as much a blank as the intellectual , and it is the business of education to fill up the one , as well as the other . The work , too , must go on simultaneously from the ...
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Page 8 - I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the Scriptures ! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage, whose history it contains, should be himself a mere man ? Do we find that he assumed...
Page 10 - There is something so pathetic in this kind of diction, that it often sets the mind in a flame, and makes our hearts burn within us.
Page 8 - What presence of mind, — what subtilty, — what truth in his replies ! How great the command over his passions ! Where is the man, — where the philosopher who could so live, and so die, without weakness and without ostentation...
Page 6 - But it is for the learned to comment on the facts we have laboriously collected. Upon ourselves, the result is a decided one. We entered upon this sea, with conflicting opinions. One of the party was sceptical, and another, I think, a professed unbeliever of the Mosaic account. After twenty-two days...
Page 1 - ... constitute education. The lowest claim which any intelligent man now prefers in its behalf is, that its domain extends over the threefold nature of man; over his body, training it by the systematic and intelligent observance of those benign laws which secure health, impart strength and prolong life; over his intellect, invigorating the mind, replenishing it with knowledge, and cultivating all...
Page 7 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 26 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 8 - Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were composed in any age, or in any idiom.
Page 12 - The purity and sublimity of the morals of the Bible have at no time been questioned; it is the foundation of the common law of every christian nation. The christian religion is a part of the law of the land, and, as such, should certainly receive no inconsiderable portion of the lawyer's attention. In vain do we look among the writings of the ancient pliilosophers for a system of moral law comparable with that of the Old and New Testament. How meagre and lifeless are even the 'Ethics
Page 19 - Nothing receives more attention in the Prussian schools than the Bible. It is taken up early and studied systematically. The great events recorded in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament ; the character and lives of those wonderful men who, from age to age, were brought upon the stage of action, and through whose agency the future history and destiny of the race were to be so much modified ; and especially, those sublime views of duty and...