Jonathan Onslow, Pioneer: A History of His Experiences and Investigations, in Seventeen BooksM.L. Hutchinson - 560 pages |
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acquaintance Asmodean beauty began believe called Christian delight Divine Drayton eager earnest endeavour England English English nature epicurean Epicurus eternal experience eyes face fact faculty faith father feeling felt gave genuine Goethe hand heart Hebrew Holy human humour imagination instinct intellectual interest Jack Hinton John Hampden kind knew labour laugh light lived look Lucretius mankind Manx matter Methodist miles mind moral morning mother natural selection nature ness never night noble notion once Onslow Paradise Lost passion Pindar pleasant pleasure Port Selwyn possessed principle Puritan quartz realise religion sense Shakespeare Snowy river soul sound spirit story strong sympathy talk Tebbutt things thou thought tion toil took true truth turn Ulverstone utter week wisdom wise words Yarrowdale young youth
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Page 291 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 467 - ... be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 207 - For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 468 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 415 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 53 - ... enchanted towers, dragons and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.
Page 524 - Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 522 - In order to make it clear how, as I believe, natural selection acts, I must beg permission to give one or two imaginary illustrations. Let us take the case of a wolf, which preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness...
Page 522 - She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Page 146 - His tufted cottage rising through the snow, He meets the roughness of the middle waste, Far from the track and blest abode of man; While round him night resistless closes fast, And every tempest, howling o'er his head, Renders the savage wilderness more wild.