The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volum 4American Book Exchange, 1880 |
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... Suicide ; " Blackwood's Magazine " . T. L .; Plea for Musicians . Thoreau , Henry David - his Character and Opinions ; R. L. S .. Turner , Joseph Mallard William .. University System , The Decline of the German ; A. T. S. Goodrick ...
... Suicide ; " Blackwood's Magazine " . T. L .; Plea for Musicians . Thoreau , Henry David - his Character and Opinions ; R. L. S .. Turner , Joseph Mallard William .. University System , The Decline of the German ; A. T. S. Goodrick ...
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... SUICIDE . Most of us regard suicide in its impious aspects only . We see in it a religious crime ; and its criminality against Heaven seems to us so thorough that it blinds us to the other features of the subject . Habit produces its ...
... SUICIDE . Most of us regard suicide in its impious aspects only . We see in it a religious crime ; and its criminality against Heaven seems to us so thorough that it blinds us to the other features of the subject . Habit produces its ...
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... suicide . In suggest ing that a larger and more general popular view might usefully be taken of the subject as a whole , we strongly insist , at the same time , on the practical usefulness and healthy effects of the purely religious ...
... suicide . In suggest ing that a larger and more general popular view might usefully be taken of the subject as a whole , we strongly insist , at the same time , on the practical usefulness and healthy effects of the purely religious ...
Side 158
... suicide has almost lost the character of a sin . In several of them it has ceased to be a civil crime . And we should also re- mind ourselves that , wrong as we consider it to be now , it has not always been wrong . The impression that ...
... suicide has almost lost the character of a sin . In several of them it has ceased to be a civil crime . And we should also re- mind ourselves that , wrong as we consider it to be now , it has not always been wrong . The impression that ...
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... suicide supplies it with an additional claim to our attention . Until a few hundred years ago the whole earth regarded voluntary death as a natural resource in moments of difficulty : no proceed- ing was more worthy of a gentleman . A ...
... suicide supplies it with an additional claim to our attention . Until a few hundred years ago the whole earth regarded voluntary death as a natural resource in moments of difficulty : no proceed- ing was more worthy of a gentleman . A ...
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Side 118 - 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...
Side 122 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Side 123 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Side 122 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Side 104 - Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.
Side 111 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Side 337 - ... assert Eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to man.
Side 57 - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Side 59 - I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name, — if ten honest men only, — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.
Side 121 - Scripture, They raise a din that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O' -wrath that day. Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school or college; It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o