Essays for the DayHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 227 Seiten |
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AGNES REPPLIER Arlo Bates Arminian believe brought Bushnell Bushnell's called century Chillingworth Chris Christ Christianity Church conception conscience creeds criticism Crown 8vo Dante death Dimmesdale Divina Commedia divine doctrine dogma escape ESSAYS eternal ethical evil evolution fact faith Father feeling genius George Eliot gilt top Goethe Greek harmony Hawthorne heart heaven Hester Hester Prynne higher criticism HORACE BUSHNELL human inspiration laws literary literature live logic look Matthew Arnold meaning Milton mind moral mystery nature ness never obedience parable pass passion perfect philosopher Plato play poet poetry Postpaid preacher prophetic pulpit Puritan question reach reality relations religion religious Scarlet Letter Schopenhauer secret sense Shakespeare soul speak spirit stand story Tennyson theme theology things thou thought tion to-day touched true truth ture unity universal voice WASHINGTON GLADDEN words writing
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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 94 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Seite 211 - 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 : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Seite 78 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 92 - 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 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 : " 111 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 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.
Seite 207 - For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres ; for those well-ordered motions and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.