Memoir of William Ellery Channing: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts, Volume 1W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848 |
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Page 116 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 172 - My tongue repeats her vows, Peace to this sacred house ! For here my friends and kindred dwell ; And since my glorious God Makes thee his blest abode, My soul shall ever love thee well.
Page 223 - It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 187 - A wise man seeks to shine in himself; a fool to outshine others. The former is humbled by a sense of his infirmities ; the latter is lifted up by the discovery of the faults of others. The wise man considers what he wants ; the fool, what he abounds in. The wise man is happy in his own approbation ; the fool, in the applause of his fellows.
Page 85 - No right is so inseparable from humanity, and so necessary to the improvement of our species, as the right of exerting the powers which nature has given us in the pursuit of any and of every good which we can obtain without doing injury to others. Should you desire it, I will give you some idea of the situation and character of the negroes in Virginia. It is a subject so degrading to humanity, that I cannot dwell on it with pleasure. I should be obliged to show you every vice, heightened by every...
Page 128 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Page 409 - Christian maxims, of loving our neighbours as ourselves; of doing to others as we would that others should do to us ; and (as will appear, I hope, in the sequel of this discourse) of that of the text.
Page 66 - German at the time of their first appearance, and produced a much greater impression there than they did in England ; and he thinks they were the first movers of the German mind in the transcendental direction. Now, I read Price when I was in college. Price saved me from Locke's Philosophy. He gave me the doctrine of ideas, and during my life I have written the words Love. Right, &c., with a capital. That book probably moulded my philosophy into the form it has always retained.
Page 45 - Greek, we studied Xenophon's Anabasis, and a few Books of the Iliad ; in Latin, Sallust and a few Books of Livy ; in Mathematics, Saunderson's Algebra, and a work on Arithmetic ; in Natural Philosophy, Enfield's Natural Philosophy and Ferguson's Astronomy ; in Rhetoric, an abridgment of Blair's Lectures, and the article on Rhetoric in the
Page 73 - ... free field for the exercise of his powers of eloquence, and urged him to take that course ; but to all such appeals to his ambition he answered, — " I think there is a wider sphere for usefulness and honor in the ministry." The path of duty marked out for him by higher wisdom was plain.