A Legacy: Being the Life and Remains of John Martin, Schoolmaster and Poet

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Hurst and Blackett, 1878
 

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Página 60 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind, is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Página 87 - Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Página 99 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 101 - ... with the most vivid red and white. It thus appeared to stand out from the rock; and I was certainly rather surprised at the moment that I first saw this gigantic head and upper part of a body bending over and staring grimly down at me. It would be impossible to convey in words an adequate idea of this uncouth and savage figure...
Página 223 - Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have found not, and shall not find." The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts. The statue is then beautiful, when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be...
Página 64 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Página 129 - ... the most squalid beastliness, oaths, quarrels, fights, drunkenness. To know that the image of God can fall below the level of the brutes, and ape their antics with hideous intelligence, is grief enough. To know that that state is its highest joy ; to know that life in all its circle of intellectual and bodily pleasure holds no greater amusement or attraction, is enough to take the edge off all joy. At the best the life of these VOL.
Página 130 - They pursue daily the same dull, never-thinking course of existence ; the only variation to which they look forward being that of hard drinking. The children grow up just in the same way; at four years old they can " swear like troopers/' very often being taught by their parents to do so.
Página 249 - Fear God, and keep His commandments, for that is the whole duty of man.

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