Ethics of Nonconformity and Workings of WillinghoodAylott and Jones, 1848 - 153 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affection amongst antinomianism attachment authority become believe betray betrothal chanticleer cheerful Christian willinghood church claims condemnation confidence conscience conviction creed dark shadow deeds delusion dissent divine doctrine dust duty earnest embodiment error essential dignity Ethics of Nonconformity evermore excite exercise exhibiting eye of truth faith falsehood fancy favour fidelity flunkeyism FOLLOWING THE LEADER free inquiry give golden mean hand harmony heart homage honour hood human implies important inquiry iron tongue judgment kind laws lest look man-catchers means ment mind mistake mode moral motives nature ness never noncon obedience object obligations opinions ourselves party passion peace pharisees posi practical present pretence principles profession QUACKERY quietists religious respect reverence sect sectarianism servant of truth soul speak spirit stand sure tence things thou thoughts tion trembling true trust voluntaryism walk wherever whilst whispers whole wisdom witness worldly
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Página 122 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 55 - He will do more in the same time, he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright.
Página 75 - ... discerned by spirit. Throughout, there is a " hiding of power " — a veiling of loveliness from the gaze of the careless and profane. The oracles are delivered in accents audible only to a reverent listener. The secrets are concealed from all but such as will be at earnest pains to discover them. Over this world of mountain and river, — of rich champaigns and arid wilderness, of quiet glades and desolate rocks, of softly purling streams and roaring cataracts, of sunshine and of storms, of...
Página 107 - ... employ the term which comes nearest to my meaning, diffusive. He presents nothing to us in a concentrated essence — and if he did, we are unable to receive it in that shape. It seems to be a law of our constitution, that truth can only become incorporated with our souls when put into contact with them in comparatively impalpable quantities, and by many and various processes. Attention, perception, comparison, discrimination, reflection, generalization — all must be exercised in turn, in order...
Página 74 - ... works. The same inexhaustible fulness, the same illimitable variety, the same absence of technical order, the same unobtrusiveness in its method of teaching, is found to distinguish the first equally with the last. Moral lessons of highest import are embodied, not in formulas but in facts — not in creeds, but in history. There is the most exquisite order, without any apparent system. All strikes one as having grown up by chance, yet all results in the completest harmony. Biography, history,...
Página 107 - ... own, it will serve us, as another step to the point we have in view, to notice here. His method of manifesting himself to the mind, is, to employ the term which comes nearest to my meaning, diffusive. He presents nothing to us in a concentrated essence — and if he did, we are unable to receive it in that shape. It seems to be a law of our constitution, that truth can only become incorporated with our souls when put into contact with them in comparatively impalpable quantities, and by many and...
Página 55 - Ogive us the man who sings at his work. Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time—he will do it better—he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, although past calculation its power of endurance.
Página 74 - ... but they are such as sympathizing inquiry may decipher — and all the illustrations she offers of the Great Unknown, she offers under conditions which tend to elicit and strengthen the powers to which they are addressed. It is precisely the same with the word of God, as with his works. The same inexhaustible fulness, the same illimitable variety, the same absence of technical order, the same unobtrusiveness in its method of teaching, is found to distinguish the first equally with the last. Moral...
Página 74 - ... temporal and the eternal — are thrown into a form so inartificial, and are woven into an entire piece with so wonderful, but so evasive a skill, as to contrast most pointedly with all human methods of disclosing mind to mind. In such forms of skill and loveliness, the Eternal Soul has chosen to enwrap itself in order to become visible to the souls of men. The riches of knowledge lie not upon the surface — the beauty is beauty only to the eye of sympathy — the spirit is only to be discerned...
Página 48 - ... soldier and sailor may roam, But woe to the wretch who expels it from home. In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found, Nor e'er in the whirlwind of passion be drowned. It softens the heart ; and though deaf to the ear, It will make it acutely and instantly hear. But in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower — O, breathe on it softly ; it dies in an hour.* T.TT.