The Life of William Ellery Channing, D. D.American Unitarian Association, 1880 - 719 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionism Abolitionists affection awaken beauty believe benevolence blessings Boston called Channing Channing's character charity Christian church consider conviction delight desire Divine doctrines duty earnest earth evil exertion express faith Faneuil Hall Father fear feel felt freedom give glory God's gospel habits happiness Harriet Martineau heart heaven holy honor hope human nature important improvement infinite influence intellectual interest Jesus Christ Joanna Baillie Joseph Tuckerman labor letter Liberal Christians ligion live look mankind means ment mind minister ministry moral nations ness never Newport Noah Worcester object opinions ourselves passions peace peculiar perfect piety pleasure preaching present principles received relation religion religious Scriptures seems sentiments sermon slavery society soul spirit sublime suffering sympathy tender thought tion Trinitarians true truth Unitarians universal views virtue Washington Allston whilst whole WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING wish word
Pasajes populares
Página 556 - The gentleman said that he should sink into insignificance if he dared to gainsay the principles of these resolutions. Sir, for the sentiments he has uttered, on soil consecrated by the prayers of Puritans and the blood of patriots, the earth should have yawned and swallowed him up.
Página 7 - To the influence of this distinguished man in the circle in which I was brought up, I may owe in part the indignation which I feel towards every invasion of human rights. In my earliest years, I regarded no human being with equal reverence.
Página 556 - Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips [pointing to the portraits in the Hall] would have broken into voice to rebuke the recreant American — the slanderer of the dead.
Página 619 - ... depths in the soul, which lie beyond all other influences, — extends my consciousness, and has sometimes given me a pleasure which I may have found in nothing else. Nothing in my experience is more mysterious, more inexplicable. An instinct has always led men to transfer it to heaven, and I suspect the Christian, under its power, has often attained to a singular consciousness of his immortality. Facts of this nature make me feel what an infinite mystery our nature is, and how little our books...
Página 73 - I had no professor or teacher to guide me; but I had two noble places of study. One was yonder beautiful edifice, now so frequented and so useful as a public library, then so deserted that I spent day after day, and sometimes week after week, amidst its dusty volumes, without interruption from a single visitor.
Página 87 - Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee," in which he described the large range of benevolent action open to every human being, however situated, describes his manner as singularly "radiant and full of heavenly joy." The general admiration felt for his spirit...
Página 520 - At such periods, men gifted with great power of thought and loftiness of sentiment are especially summoned to the conflict with evil. They hear, as it were, in their own magnanimity and generous aspirations, the voice of a divinity ; and thus commissioned, and burning with a passionate devotion to truth and freedom, they must and will speak with an indignant energy; and they ought not to be measured by the standard of ordinary men in ordinary times.
Página 668 - ... free, which protects itself against the usurpations of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects a higher law than fashion, which respects itself too much to be the slave or tool of the many or the few.
Página 683 - Channing, do not prevent our entertaining a high admiration of his general 'writings ; but this admiration rises to a far higher feeling as we study his biography ; for we see that, ' singularly lofty as is the spirit which his writings breathe, he was true to them in; heart and life...
Página 381 - If a man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him "; for the fact is illustrated before our eyes.