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ReviewsWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.Write review Common terms and phrasesAbraham activity age to age ages answer become belong Bible bird of prey Cardinal Newman Catholic comes desire divine dream ecclesiastical eternal evil experience fact faith feel fellowship Francis of Assisi glory Goodman Dull grow higher highest historic church holy hope human ical idea ideals inspiration intel intellectual intelligence Israel judgment kind laws ligion literature live look means ment mind moral nature ness never organization peace philosopher Plato poet possible preparation prey priest problem profession prophets Psalm Puritan question reality religious righteousness Roman Catholic Church sacred Saint Dominic saints Scriptures secular seek selfish sense soul speaking spiritual stand strength struggle sublime symbols teach teacher of religion things Thou thought tion to-day triumph true truth tween understanding heart universe unmoral velopment vidual virtue whole wisdom wise words worship Popular passagesThe breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Page 88 HE clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Page 106 Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields— like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main— why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day. Page vi And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Page 61 The good want power but to weep barren tears : The powerful goodness want, — worse need for them : The wise want love : and those who love want wisdom : And all best things are thus confused to ill. Page 99 Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never! How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted, In the distraction of this madding fever! O benefit of ill ! now I find true That better is by evil still made better; And ruin'd love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. Page 65 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. Page 68 The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture ; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men. Page 131 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Page 141 By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. Page 55 Other editions
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