Essays for the DayHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 227 Seiten |
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Arminian believe brought Bushnell's called century ception CHARLES KINGSLEY Chillingworth Chris Christ Christianity Church conception conscience creeds criticism Dante death denominations Dimmesdale divine doctrine dogma escape eternal ethical evil evolution fact faith Father feeling freedom genius George Eliot Goethe Greek harmony Hawthorne heart heaven Hester Hester Prynne higher criticism HORACE BUSHNELL human inspiration laws litera literary literature live logic look matter Matthew Arnold meaning Milton mind moral mystery nature ness never obedience parable pass passion path perfect philosopher Plato play poet poetry preacher prophetic Protestant pulpit Purgatory Puritan question reach reality relations religion religious Scarlet Letter Schopenhauer secret sense Shakespeare Sir Thomas Browne soul speak spirit stand story Tennyson theism theme theology things thou thought tion to-day touched true truth ture unity universal vibration voice words
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Seite 82 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Seite 78 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 104 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Seite 208 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers...
Seite 101 - TWAS August, and the fierce sun overhead Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, And the pale weaver, through his windows seen In Spitalfields, look'd thrice dispirited. I met a preacher there I knew, and said: '1ll and o'erwork'd, how fare you in this scene?'— 'Bravely !' said he; 'for I of late have been Much cheer'd with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.
Seite 226 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Seite 201 - Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul...
Seite 122 - Yet he trembled, and turned to Hester with an expression of doubt and anxiety in his eyes, not the less evidently betrayed that there was a feeble smile upon his lips. "Is not this better," murmured he, "than what we dreamed of in the forest?
Seite 207 - I do not recollect more than one thing said adequately on the subject of music in all literature, it is a passage in the Religio Medici* of Sir T.
Seite 137 - Starting thus with a recognized psychological fact as our basis, we seem to preserve a contact with 'science' which the ordinary theologian lacks. At the same time the theologian's contention that the religious man is moved by an external power is vindicated, for it is one of the peculiarities of invasions from the subconscious region to take on objective appearances, and to suggest to the Subject an external control.