The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, 第 3 卷W. Pickering, 1837 |
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... a young mind to compare what is gained with what has passed away ; to discern that amidst the in- cessant intellectual activity of the race , the intel- lectual power of individual minds may be falling off ; 10 THE FRIEND .
... a young mind to compare what is gained with what has passed away ; to discern that amidst the in- cessant intellectual activity of the race , the intel- lectual power of individual minds may be falling off ; 10 THE FRIEND .
第 11 頁
... individual minds may be falling off ; and that amidst accumulating knowledge lofty science may disappear ; and still less , to judge , in the more complicated moral character of a people , what is progression , and what is decline ...
... individual minds may be falling off ; and that amidst accumulating knowledge lofty science may disappear ; and still less , to judge , in the more complicated moral character of a people , what is progression , and what is decline ...
第 27 頁
... individual minds , but of the general moral or intellectual merits of an age , or a people , or of the human race . Let us allow and believe that there is a progress in the species towards unattainable per- fection , or whether this be ...
... individual minds , but of the general moral or intellectual merits of an age , or a people , or of the human race . Let us allow and believe that there is a progress in the species towards unattainable per- fection , or whether this be ...
第 28 頁
... individual . But human kind , —what is it else than myriads of rational beings in various degrees obedient to their reason ; some torpid , some aspiring ; some in eager chase to the right hand , some to the left ; these wasting down ...
... individual . But human kind , —what is it else than myriads of rational beings in various degrees obedient to their reason ; some torpid , some aspiring ; some in eager chase to the right hand , some to the left ; these wasting down ...
第 38 頁
... individual be under his own care , if it be his first care , if duty begin from the point of accountableness to our conscience , and , through that , to God and human nature ; if without such primary sense of duty , all secondary care ...
... individual be under his own care , if it be his first care , if duty begin from the point of accountableness to our conscience , and , through that , to God and human nature ; if without such primary sense of duty , all secondary care ...
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第 198 頁 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
第 121 頁 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
第 119 頁 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
第 197 頁 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
第 253 頁 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
第 142 頁 - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
第 184 頁 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
第 197 頁 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
第 121 頁 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
第 247 頁 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...