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... desire is to set their minds working in fresh directions , rather than to convert them to agreement with my own views on points of detail . As my colleagues in the Chicago Ethical Society have generously undertaken the distribution of a ...
... desire is to set their minds working in fresh directions , rather than to convert them to agreement with my own views on points of detail . As my colleagues in the Chicago Ethical Society have generously undertaken the distribution of a ...
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... desires for them an increasing influence and suc- cess ; by one who deplores their narrowness , their mis- takes and their present comparative inefficiency , only because he is convinced of the reality of the need which they are in part ...
... desires for them an increasing influence and suc- cess ; by one who deplores their narrowness , their mis- takes and their present comparative inefficiency , only because he is convinced of the reality of the need which they are in part ...
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... desires evoked by its appearance ; and those desires are the expression of certain needs of his nature which through experience he has learned can be satisfied by apples . The reality of the genuine apple consists in the fact that it ...
... desires evoked by its appearance ; and those desires are the expression of certain needs of his nature which through experience he has learned can be satisfied by apples . The reality of the genuine apple consists in the fact that it ...
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... desires , since the permanent stilling of organic demands is the very definition of bodily death . To treat thirst as a craving for an infinite quantity of water would be to seek not its satisfaction but its extinction ; and this could ...
... desires , since the permanent stilling of organic demands is the very definition of bodily death . To treat thirst as a craving for an infinite quantity of water would be to seek not its satisfaction but its extinction ; and this could ...
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... desire . " This transfers the problem to the region of the will , and allows for the fact that desire perpetually outruns knowledge . We yearn for what is good before we know it ; we desire the universal prevalence of a good which ...
... desire . " This transfers the problem to the region of the will , and allows for the fact that desire perpetually outruns knowledge . We yearn for what is good before we know it ; we desire the universal prevalence of a good which ...
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Page 157 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 79 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 156 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Page 88 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 82 - And they come again to Jerusalem : and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, 28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things ? and who gave thee this authority to do these things...
Page 170 - Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Page 152 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty— the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life — thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page 181 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 113 - I was going up into this court, or while I was speaking, at anything which I was going to say ; and yet I have often been stopped in the middle of a speech, but now in nothing I either said or did, touching this matter, has the oracle opposed me.
Page 171 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.