An Introduction to a Course of German Literature: In Lectures to the Students of the University of LondonJ. Taylor, 1830 - 157 pages |
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... whole ; and , like other organic products , subject to certain laws and influences of time . Thus , for instance , we see a forest , as a mass of single trees , subjected to the same changes and influences to which the single tree is ...
... whole ; and , like other organic products , subject to certain laws and influences of time . Thus , for instance , we see a forest , as a mass of single trees , subjected to the same changes and influences to which the single tree is ...
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... whole being , and appear to us , as heaven - descended seraphs , who have come to make but a brief abode on our terrestrial plains . A similar impression is caused by the Greeks on the impartial observer . With them , intellect and ...
... whole being , and appear to us , as heaven - descended seraphs , who have come to make but a brief abode on our terrestrial plains . A similar impression is caused by the Greeks on the impartial observer . With them , intellect and ...
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... so especially favoured the perfect rege- neration of mankind , as the Christian religion gra- dually pervaded the whole mass of people throughout the globe . The depraved national feeling of the Romans 24 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
... so especially favoured the perfect rege- neration of mankind , as the Christian religion gra- dually pervaded the whole mass of people throughout the globe . The depraved national feeling of the Romans 24 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
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... whole eastern world , and rendered its adherents victors , it is true , yet , in many instances , destroyers of civilization ; while Christianity made haughty conquerors captives to the cross , and members of civilized states ! The ...
... whole eastern world , and rendered its adherents victors , it is true , yet , in many instances , destroyers of civilization ; while Christianity made haughty conquerors captives to the cross , and members of civilized states ! The ...
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... chord struck at one extremity of Europe resounded through the whole of western Christendom ; and thus the Christian doctrine pervaded those nations with a consciousness of their being united in relation to the Deity GERMAN LITERATURE . 29.
... chord struck at one extremity of Europe resounded through the whole of western Christendom ; and thus the Christian doctrine pervaded those nations with a consciousness of their being united in relation to the Deity GERMAN LITERATURE . 29.
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Page 154 - Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein' gute Wehr und Waffen, Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not, Die uns jetzt hat betroffen. Der alt' böse Feind Mit Ernst er's jetzt meint; Groß' Macht und viel List Sein' grausam Rüstung ist, Auf Erd
Page 59 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.