Sermons, Volumen2D.G. Francis, 1874 |
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... gives them diversion enough . They to whom work itself is a delight , want and ask and welcome no other . Im agination , fancy , taste , find resources ample and stimulating , as they go along . Yet even here there are exceptions ...
... gives them diversion enough . They to whom work itself is a delight , want and ask and welcome no other . Im agination , fancy , taste , find resources ample and stimulating , as they go along . Yet even here there are exceptions ...
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... give way under the stress of cerebral excitement , is altogether probable ; facts here only confirm what re- flection would lead us to expect . But , after all , is it so much toil , as the conditions of toil , the accompani- ments of ...
... give way under the stress of cerebral excitement , is altogether probable ; facts here only confirm what re- flection would lead us to expect . But , after all , is it so much toil , as the conditions of toil , the accompani- ments of ...
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... gives too little . Its graceful attractions are insufficient to draw people away from themselves . Its pathos is affected ; its mirth is light . It will cause a ripple on the surface of placid minds , but rarely it stirs the depths of ...
... gives too little . Its graceful attractions are insufficient to draw people away from themselves . Its pathos is affected ; its mirth is light . It will cause a ripple on the surface of placid minds , but rarely it stirs the depths of ...
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... give de- light to those that do not care to be amused , justifies the representation of plays that sadden more than they refresh . From what has been said , it may be inferred that the condition of our public amusements is far from ...
... give de- light to those that do not care to be amused , justifies the representation of plays that sadden more than they refresh . From what has been said , it may be inferred that the condition of our public amusements is far from ...
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... give high - sounding names to so commonplace a thing as selfishness ? Why speak of nobleness , disinterestedness , magna- nimity , saintliness , when there are no such things ? Thought , sentiment , resolve , are merely the slight ...
... give high - sounding names to so commonplace a thing as selfishness ? Why speak of nobleness , disinterestedness , magna- nimity , saintliness , when there are no such things ? Thought , sentiment , resolve , are merely the slight ...
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17 ASTOR PLACE amusement associated atheism authority bear-baiting beautiful become belief Bible called character Charles Sumner Christ Christendom Christian church Church of Rome conduct conscience conviction creed D. G. FRANCIS death devout divine doctrine duty earnest earth entertain evil existence fact faith feeling FORTY-FIRST AND FORTY-SECOND give happiness heart heaven Hebrew holy Holy Spirit hope human idea immortality individual intel intelligence interest Jesus kind law of habit less ligion live LYRIC HALL mankind means ment mind moral nature ness never noble O. B. FROTHINGHAM Old Testament passion poor practice prayer PREACHED IN LYRIC preacher principle Puritans qualities reason reform regard religion religious resurrection revival Romanist saint saintliness sense sentiment SERMON BY O. B. simply SIXTH AVENUE social society soul spirit of truth supreme sympathy Theodore Parker things thought tion uncon vidual virtue women word
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Página 25 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides. Each part may call the farthest brother, For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides.
Página 3 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 19 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered
Página 8 - And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes.
Página 15 - For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: 3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air...
Página 7 - Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day.
Página 10 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Página 10 - Oh, then we awoke with sudden start From our deep dream, and knew too late, How bare the rock, how desolate, Which had received our precious freight: Yet we called out — "Depart! Our gifts, once given, must here abide? Our work is done; we have no heart To mar our work,
Página 19 - I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life : Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son.
Página 17 - A person whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture — is said to have a character.