Essays in a Series of LettersS. Holdsworth, 1838 - 342 sider |
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Side 24 - If he does not know absolutely every agent in the universe, the one that he does not know may be God. If he is not himself the chief agent in the universe, and does not know what is so, that which is so may be God. If he is not in absolute possession of all the propositions that constitute universal truth, the one which he wants may be, that there is a God. If he cannot with certainty assign the cause of all that he perceives to exist, that cause may be a God. If he does not know...
Side 222 - Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him also, shall the Son of man be ashamed when He cometh in the glory of His Father, with the holy angels.
Side 80 - By this method he had gained, after a considerable time, money enough to purchase, in order to sell again, a few cattle, of which he had taken pains to understand the value. He speedily but cautiously turned his first gains into second advantages ; retained without a single deviation his extreme parsimony; and thus advanced by degrees into larger transactions and incipient wealth. I did not hear, or have forgotten the continued course of his life : but the final result was, that he more than recovered...
Side 81 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Side 295 - Our life, much rather; Life is the desert, life the solitude ; Death joins us to the great majority : 'Tis to be born to Platos and to Caesars, 'Tis to be great for ever • 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then to die.
Side 96 - To be tremblingly alive to gentle impressions, and yet be able to preserve, when the prosecution of a design requires it, an immoveable heart amidst even the most imperious causes of subduing emotion, is perhaps not an impossible constitution of mind ; but it is the utmost and rarest endowment of humanity...
Side 38 - ... exults in the indications of his being fixed and irretrievable. He feels this confirmed habit as the grasp of the hand of God which will never let him go. From this advanced state he looks with firmness and joy on futurity, and says, I carry the eternal mark upon me that I belong to God ; I am free of the universe ; and I am ready to go to any world to which he shall please to transmit me, certain that everywhere, in height or depth, he will acknowledge me for ever.
Side 81 - ... the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling, which he could spare, to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed; all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and operation by falling into the grand one.
Side 281 - that we (now) living should not henceforth live to ourselves, but to him that died for us, and rose again...
Side 125 - The influence of this habit of dwelling on the beautiful fallacious forms of imagination, will accompany the mind into the most serious speculations, or rather musings, on the real world, and what is to be done in it, and expected ; as the image, which the eye acquires from looking at any dazzling object, still appears before it wherever it turns.