Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Volumen1Houghton, Mifflin, 1894 - 662 páginas |
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Página 13 - They sin, who tell us love can die : With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity...
Página 240 - Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree. He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve — He hath a cushion plump: It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump. The skiff-boat neared: I heard them talk, "Why, this is strange, I trow! Where are those lights so many and fair, That signal made but now?
Página 93 - In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God, and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
Página 237 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Página 129 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject ; the " will of God," the rule ; and " everlasting happiness,
Página 93 - He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay : and set my feet upon a rock, and ordered my goings.
Página 241 - ... (Peace be with you), he responded with a smile and a kindly glance at the lamb, to which he saw my eyes were directed. It was actually the beautiful parable of the gospel acted out before my sight. Every particular was true to the story; the shepherd had doubtless left his " ninety and nine in the wilderness...
Página 121 - It is a fact of consciousness to which all experience bears witness, and which it is the duty of the philosopher to admit and account for, instead of disguising or mutilating it to suit the demands of a system, that there are certain truths which, when once acquired, no matter how, it is impossible, by any effort of thought, to conceive as reversed or reversible.
Página 237 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.