The Eclipse of Faith: Or, A Visit to a Religious ScepticCrosby, Nichols, 1854 - 452 páginas |
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Página 378 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Página 344 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Página 340 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 415 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife ; and they two shall be one flesh.
Página 415 - Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered.
Página 122 - The grassy clods now calved, now half appeared The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts...
Página 132 - Pan, or Lord ; or called by no name at all. Each people has its Prophets and its Saints ; and many a swarthy Indian, who bowed down to wood and stone — many a grimfaced Calmuck, who worshipped the great God of Storms — many a Grecian peasant, who did homage to Phoebus-Apollo when the Sun rose or went down — yes, many a savage, his hands smeared all over with human sacrifice, shall come from the East and the West, and sit down in the Kingdom of God with Moses and Zoroaster, with Socrates and...
Página 148 - The nature of the case implies, that the human mind is competent to sit in moral and spiritual judgment on a professed revelation ; and to decide (if the case seem to require it) in the following tone : " This doctrine attributes to God, that which we should all call harsh, cruel, or unjust in Man ; it is therefore intrinsically inadmissible...