Essays in a series of letters to a friend, Volum 11806 |
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Pàgina 173 - with merely human instances) the example of him who said, " I must be about my Father's business. My meat and drink is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till
Pàgina 131 - as a spider, may capture the hapless boaster the very next moment, and! triumphantly shew the futility of the determinations by which he was to have proved: the independence of his understanding and his will. He belongs to whatever can seize him ; and innumerable things do actually verify their claim on
Pàgina 168 - but by being unintermitted, it had an equability of manner which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding
Pàgina 162 - most languid efforts to 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
Pàgina 329 - and the individual who should solemnly determine to try its last possible efficacy, might probably find himself becoming a much more prevailing agent in his little sphere. And if the whole, or the greater number, of the disciples of Christianity, were, with an earnest unalterable resolution of each, to combine that Heaven should not
Pàgina 112 - quite unconscious of it, are made the subjects of deliberate thought, and many of the designs respecting them revolved in silence. Here projects, convictions, vows, are confusedly scattered, and the records of past life are laid. Here in solitary state sits Conscience, surrounded by her own thunders, which sometimes sleep, and sometimes roar
Pàgina 170 - such a man as Howard; he is above their sphere of judgment. The invisible spirits, who fulfil their commission of philanthropy among mortals, do not care about pictures, statues, and sumptuous buildings; and no more did he, when the
Pàgina 130 - And he gives himself as much license to complain^ as if a right to all these advantages had been conferred' on him at his nativity, but refused, by a malignant or capricious fate^ to his life. Thus he is occupied—instead of catching with- a vigilant eye, and seizing: •with a strong hand,- all the possibilities
Pàgina 166 - and then, in pursuance of the saving part of his plan, requested some small gratuity of meat and drink, which was given him. He then looked out for the next thing that might chance to offer, and went, with
Pàgina 314 - pervert even the very schemes and operations by which the world should be improved, though their first principles were pure as heaven; and revolutions, great discoveries, augmented science, and new forms of polity, will become in effect what may be denominated the sublime mechanics of depravity. LETTER V, THIS view of moral and philosophical projects,