A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City, 第 1 卷

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第 xlv 頁 - Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe The universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turned Bound through the vast profundity obscure, And said : ' Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, 0 world
第 xxxii 頁 - Misunderstood ! it is a right fool's word. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."!
第 348 頁 - States, might be a genuine rule of action for some of the breath-made men in high places, to use towards the posterity of this noble, daring people:— ' Be to her faults a little blind; Be to her virtues very kind.' "We have had democratic Presidents, whig Presidents, a
第 xxxi 頁 - ?J . . . The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is that it scatters your force, it loses your time, and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead Church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it,
第 xxvii 頁 - man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell;' that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul, where man the effect ceases, and God the cause begins. The walls are taken away, we lie open on
第 xxvii 頁 - For you there is a reality, a fit place and congenial duties. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life; place yourself in the full centre of that flood; then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
第 xxvii 頁 - is a stream whose source is hidden.* . . . When I watch that flowing river which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner, —not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water,
第 xxxiv 頁 - on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.* ... The relations of the soul to the Divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose
第 xxv 頁 - From within, or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good
第 xxvi 頁 - We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.* . . . Every

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