Essays by a Series of LettersRobert Carter & Bros., 1858 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 105 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Pàgina 101 - ... secure. The utmost powers of the man are constrained into the service of the favourite Cause by this passion, which sweeps away, as it advances, all the trivial objections and little opposing motives, and seems almost to open a way through impossibilities. This spirit comes on him in the morning as soon as he recovers his consciousness, and commands and impels him through the day with a power from which he could not emancipate himself if he would. When the force of habit is added, the determination...
Pàgina 105 - ... the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling which he could spare to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed: all his subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and operation, by falling into the grand one.
Pàgina 63 - He feels this confirmed habit as the grasp of the hand of God, which will never let him go. From this advanced state he looks with firmness and joy on futurity, and says, I carry the eternal mark...
Pàgina 263 - Olympus is but a subaltern pretender to power. He will be taught that the most glorious and enviable life is that, to which the greatest number of other lives are made a sacrifice ; and that it is noble in a hero to prefer even a short life attended by this felicity, to a long one which should permit a longer life also to others.
Pàgina 19 - He may have lived almost an age, and traversed a continent, minutely examining its curiosities, and interpreting the half-obliterated characters on its monuments, unconscious the while of a process operating on his own mind, to impress or to erase characteristics of much more importance to him than all the figured brass or marble that Europe contains. After having explored many a cavern or dark ruinous avenue, he may have left undetected a darker recess within where there would be much more striking...
Pàgina 103 - He removed in the same manner to several parts of the kingdom, remote from each other; but in every place quickly perceived that his deadly pursuer was near him. At last he went to South America, where he had enjoyed his security but a very short time, before his...
Pàgina 308 - But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Pàgina 84 - ... will He belongs to whatever can make capture of him ; and one thing after another vindicates its right to him by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; as twigs and chips, floating near the edge of a river, are intercepted by every weed, and whirled in every eddy.
Pàgina 120 - To be tremblingly alive to gentle impressions, and yet be able to preserve, when the prosecution of a design requires it, an immoveable heart amidst even the most imperious causes of subduing emotion, is perhaps not an impossible constitution of mind ; but it is the utmost and rarest endowment of humanity...