The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

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Trübner, 1872 - 236 páginas
 

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Página 126 - O Lord, how manifold are, thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all : The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Página 285 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit within me.
Página 82 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Página 269 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Página 132 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 99 - Set off to the world, nor in. broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 11 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers...
Página 175 - The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.— THEODORE PARKER.
Página v - Skilful alike with tongue and pen, He preached to all men everywhere The Gospel of the Golden Rule, The New Commandment given to men, Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.
Página 40 - Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind ; One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world has never lost.

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