Village Conversations, Or The Vicar's Fireside, 第 3 卷 |
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What is in me dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence , And justify the ways of God to Man . MILTON . VOL . III . SECOND EDITION .
What is in me dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence , And justify the ways of God to Man . MILTON . VOL . III . SECOND EDITION .
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acquired advancement affections animal arises attainment attention Author benevolent principle Beverley body Bristol capacities cause character Charles civil conduct connexion consequently considered consists constitution contemplation creation cultivation death Deity delight depend derived designed desire diffusion direct Divine duties elevation enables enjoy enjoyment enlarged equally essential evil existence external faculties feelings future glorious habit happiness higher highest honour human ideas ignorance importance improve individual influence inspire intellectual intelligent interest knowledge Lady laws less light malevolent mankind means ment mental merit mind Miss moral motives nature necessary object obligation observations occasioned operation origin pain perceptions perfection period permanent persons placed pleasures political possess present principles of action proceed produce progress promote propensities proper reason refined religion respect result selfish sense Sir Edward social society soul sufferings superior things tion truth understanding universe Vicar vice views virtue well-being whole
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第 175 頁 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
第 7 頁 - FOR the principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature ; but which could not be preserved in peace without that mutual assistance and intercourse which is gained by the institution of friendly and social communities. Hence it follows, that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals.
第 57 頁 - Every sort of moral, every sort of civil, every sort of politic institution, aiding the rational and natural ties that connect the human understanding and affections to the divine, are not more than necessary, in order to build up that wonderful structure, Man...
第 180 頁 - In measure such, that, from the wide complex Of coexistent orders, one might rise, One Order, all-involving and entire, He too beholding in the sacred light Of his essential reason, all the shapes Of swift contingence, all successive ties Of action propagated through the sum Of possible existence, he at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So...
第 44 頁 - Though he should consider some of them as in some measure abusive, he will content himself with moderating, what he often cannot annihilate without great violence. When he cannot conquer the rooted prejudices of the people by reason and persuasion, he will not attempt to subdue them by force...
第 177 頁 - He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
第 193 頁 - Let there be light' proclaimed the Almighty Lord, Astonished chaos heard the potent word; Through all his realms the kindling ether runs, And the mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first; Bend, as they journey with projectile force, In bright ellipses their reluctant course; HAYLEY.
第 156 頁 - His ears are open to the softest cry, His grace descends to meet the lifted eye ; He reads the language of a silent tear, And sighs are incense from a heart sincere.
第 i 頁 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.