Shelburne Essays: Studies of religions dualism. Sixth seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 355 Seiten |
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... glories and terrors of the sky , -the splendour of the dawn spreading out her white garments over and gazing upon the earth with innumerable eyes , the the darkness , the night dressing herself in beauty 4 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
... glories and terrors of the sky , -the splendour of the dawn spreading out her white garments over and gazing upon the earth with innumerable eyes , the the darkness , the night dressing herself in beauty 4 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
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... beauty spread over Milton's Paradise , there is nothing which quite takes the place of Virgil's Tacitæ per amica silentia lunæ , wherein the stillness of that de- seems almost to be made visible in the nocturnal heavens sired rest , the ...
... beauty spread over Milton's Paradise , there is nothing which quite takes the place of Virgil's Tacitæ per amica silentia lunæ , wherein the stillness of that de- seems almost to be made visible in the nocturnal heavens sired rest , the ...
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... beauty , and the silent note which Cupid strikes , far sweeter than the sound of an instrument . For there is a music where ever there is a harmony , order or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the music of the Spheres : for ...
... beauty , and the silent note which Cupid strikes , far sweeter than the sound of an instrument . For there is a music where ever there is a harmony , order or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the music of the Spheres : for ...
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... beauty and solitude of the inanimate world ; there he meets no contrary will to frus- trate his own , nothing to prevent him from personifying his emotions in some alter - ego that smiles at him benignly from field and brook , echoes ...
... beauty and solitude of the inanimate world ; there he meets no contrary will to frus- trate his own , nothing to prevent him from personifying his emotions in some alter - ego that smiles at him benignly from field and brook , echoes ...
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... beauty and solitude of the inanimate world ; there he meets no contrary will to frus- trate his own , nothing to prevent him from personifying his emotions in some alter - ego that smiles at him benignly from field and brook , echoes ...
... beauty and solitude of the inanimate world ; there he meets no contrary will to frus- trate his own , nothing to prevent him from personifying his emotions in some alter - ego that smiles at him benignly from field and brook , echoes ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
allegory Anaxagoras antinomy Anytus Athenians Athens Augustine Augustine's beauty believe Brahma Bunyan called century Christ Christian corrupted creed dæmons death deism deists Descartes desire divine doctrine dogma doubt dualism earth egotism emotion Epictetus escape eternal evil eyes faculty faith fear feel felicity finite friends gods Grace harmony hear heart heaven Hindu honour human ideas ignorance imagination India individual infinite inner instinct Jansenists Jesuits knowledge learned light live look man's Manichæan Manichæism mankind matter Meletus ment mind moral mystery mystical nature never oracle Pascal pass passions Pelagianism philosophy Plato Port-Royal quincunxes rationalism reality reason Religio Medici religion religious righteousness Rousseau seems sense shadows Sir Thomas Browne society Socrates soul speak spirit suppose sympathy talk theology theory things thou thought tion true truth understanding unto Upanishads virtue voice whole wisdom words Xanthippe Xenophon Yajnavalkya
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 156 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Seite 168 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Seite 163 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him, is our silence, when we confess without confession, that his glory is inexplicable, hie greatness above our capacity and reach.
Seite 188 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame. The mind's disease, its ruling passion came...
Seite 163 - 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...
Seite 161 - And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams, to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceit of the day.
Seite 159 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...
Seite 163 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Seite 157 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a History, but a piece of Poetry, and would sound to common ears like a Fable.
Seite 89 - Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves : the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God ; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self.