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absolutely activity æsthetic Apostle Paul atheism attained becomes Bern better blessings brings CARL HILTY cern children of light Christ Christian Chur condition confession Congregational Church contrary courage creed Dante desire devotion dition duty Eidgenossenschaft ence essen evil experience fact faith fear Finally Francis of Assisi further Goethe habit happiness heart Hegel honor human idealism idleness inclined intellectual Klinger lives meaning mind modern world moral order nature ness never one's oneself outward path peace perhaps persons philosophy physical piness pleasure possessions possible practical problem Purgatorio reading reality religion rest restless rule seek self-seeking sense simply sion SIR JOHN LUBBOCK social soon soul spiritual superfluous Swiss Switzerland tain task Tertullian things thou thought tion true truth turbed ture UNIVERSITY University of Bern vanity wholly wisdom worldly
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Page 50 - I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 36 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 108 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Page 114 - THROUGH me the way is to the city dolent ; Through me the way is to eternal dole ; Through me the way among the people lost Justice incited my sublime Creator ; Created me divine Omnipotence, The highest Wisdom and the primal Love. Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in...
Page 90 - He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Page 93 - Let Asher be blessed with children ; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass ; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Page 123 - This mount is such, that ever At the beginning down below 'tis tiresome, And aye the more one climbs, the less it hurts.
Page 98 - As, home-returning, less remote they lodge, The darkness fled away on every side, And slumber with it; whereupon I rose, Seeing already the great Masters risen. "That apple sweet, which through so many branches The care of mortals goeth in pursuit of, To-day shall put in peace thy hungerings.
Page 139 - Incline your ear, and come unto Me : hear, and your soul shall LIVE ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.