Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1H. B. Fuller, 1871 |
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... society are not per- fect ; that their imperfections are not of granite or marble , but only of words written on soft wax , which may be erased and others written thereon anew . He shows that such imperfect institutions are less The ...
... society are not per- fect ; that their imperfections are not of granite or marble , but only of words written on soft wax , which may be erased and others written thereon anew . He shows that such imperfect institutions are less The ...
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... , or for a civil offence been shut up in a jail . If the poor forsake a church , be sure that the church forsook God long before . But the church must have an action on others out of its pale . If a man or a society 34 THE TRUE IDEA.
... , or for a civil offence been shut up in a jail . If the poor forsake a church , be sure that the church forsook God long before . But the church must have an action on others out of its pale . If a man or a society 34 THE TRUE IDEA.
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Theodore Parker. of its pale . If a man or a society of men have a truth , they hold it not for themselves alone , but for all men . The solitary thinker , who in a moment of ecstatic action in his closet at midnight discovers a truth ...
Theodore Parker. of its pale . If a man or a society of men have a truth , they hold it not for themselves alone , but for all men . The solitary thinker , who in a moment of ecstatic action in his closet at midnight discovers a truth ...
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... society for promoting true senti- ments and ideas . If it would lead , it must go before men ; if it would be looked up to , it must stand high . That is not all : it should be a society for the motion of good works . We are all beneath ...
... society for promoting true senti- ments and ideas . If it would lead , it must go before men ; if it would be looked up to , it must stand high . That is not all : it should be a society for the motion of good works . We are all beneath ...
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... society , but far oftener the victim of society . Whence come the tenants of our almshouses , jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and most ignorant ! Say rather from ...
... society , but far oftener the victim of society . Whence come the tenants of our almshouses , jails , the victims of vice in all our towns ? Why , from the lowest rank of the people ; from the poorest and most ignorant ! Say rather from ...
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29th Congress almshouse American army battle become better bless blood born Boston brothers causes charity child Christ Christian church Congress cost crime criminals curse drunkenness England evil Faneuil Hall fathers fear fight gallows glory hands heart honor houses human hundred ideas ignorant infamous intemperance jail Jesus justice kill labor land less live look man's mankind manly MARK HEALEY Massachusetts MELODEON merchants Mexicans Mexico misery moral murder nation nature never noble Old Testament peace perhaps Pharisees political poor poverty prayer preach prison punishment reform religion rich Sadducee sermon shame slave power slavery slaves society soldiers soul speak streets tell THEODORE PARKER theology thereof thing thought tion town trade true truth unalienable rights uncon Vera Cruz weak wealth whigs whole wicked women words wrong
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Página 37 - For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr stands, { On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
Página 98 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Página 67 - But I say unto you, love your enemies ; bless them that curse you ; do good to them that hate you ; pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.
Página 96 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Página 95 - She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head ; A pious man whom duty brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bathes my head?
Página 37 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Página 232 - Douglass in red herrings ; And noble name and cultured land, Palace, and park, and vassal band. Are powerless to the notes of hand Of Rothschild or the Barings.
Página 279 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Página 40 - Lawgiver, whose injunctions remain of undiminished obligation on all who profess to believe in him, " whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them...
Página 8 - he stirred up the people ; " so he did. The Essenes, no doubt, would have it that he was " a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.