The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 310 pages |
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The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life George Angier Gordon Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life George Angier Gordon Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life George Angier Gordon Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
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apostle argument Aristotle Arthur Henry Hallam atheism beautiful become behold believe body character Christ Christian city of God conditional immortality conscience consciousness conviction Crito dead disciples divine dream duty earth Edward Caird ence endless eternal ethical everlasting evil existence fact faith feeling forever future gathered God's heart heaven Hebrew prophets highest hope human idea ideal immortality individual infinite insight inspired intellect Isaiah Israel Jehovah Jesus light living look Lord man's mankind master mind moral order moral universe nation nature ness never Odysseus outward Paul perish Phædo Pharisee philosopher Plato poem poet presence Psalm quadrupeds question race reality reason resurrection revelation revival from death righteous Roman senate sense sensuous Socrates sorrow soul spirit sublime suffering supreme Tennyson terrible thee things thinkers thou thought tion true trust truth universe utterance utterly vast vindication vision whole words worth
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Page 131 - 0 yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; " That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.
Page 41 - temple. Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory I
Page 121 - One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." " No, at noon-day in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer!
Page 100 - seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen, I now can see no more.
Page 52 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken : I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 103 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing;
Page 133 - there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; " For though from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 125 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade; And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
Page 104 - Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 129 - Who lov'd, who sufFer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills ? " No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.