The Eclipse of Faith: Or, A Visit to a Religious ScepticCrosby, Nichols, 1854 - 452 páginas |
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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 122 - The grassy clods now calved, now half appeared The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts...
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 187 - I am what I am ; a creature of necessity ; I claim neither merit nor demerit." " I feel that I am as completely the result of my nature, and impelled to do what I do, as the needle to point to the north, or the puppet to move according as the string is pulled." "I cannot alter my will, or be other than what I am, and cannot deserve either reward or punishment.
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 grim-faced 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 Jesus...
Página 294 - ... as the New Testament, with the devotional parts of the Old. There is none which I know so intimately, the very words of which dwell close to me in my most sacred thoughts, none for which I so thank God, none on which my soul and heart have been to so great an extent moulded. In my early boyhood, it was my private delight and daily companion ; and to it I owe the best part of whatever wisdom there is in my manhood...
Página 238 - ... which made whole passages perfectly unintelligible. Many of the sweetest passages of Shakspeare were converted into unmeaning nonsense, from the absence of those words which his own all but divine genius had appropriated from a still diviner source. As to Milton, he was nearly ruined, as might naturally be supposed. Walter Scott's novels were filled with perpetual lacunae.
Página 81 - spiritual freedom ? ' If any thing be divine about Mr. Newman's system, surely it must be this. Ought you not to thank God that he has been thus pleased to ' open your eyes, and to turn you from darkness to light ' — to raise up in these last days such an apostle of the truth which had lain so long 'hidden from ages and generations?' Can you do less than admire the divine artifice by which, when it was impossible for God directly to tell man by external revelation that he could directly tell him...
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...