Colloquies: Imaginary Conversations Between a Phrenologist and the Shade of Dugald StewartParbury & Company, 1838 - 336 pages |
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... thing radically erroneous ; and if irreconcilable differences of opinion existed , the Phrenologist only could be in error , and he is not anxious to take this position . While the critic is disposed to condemn me on account of the ...
... thing radically erroneous ; and if irreconcilable differences of opinion existed , the Phrenologist only could be in error , and he is not anxious to take this position . While the critic is disposed to condemn me on account of the ...
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... things , which it is not lawful or possible for man to utter . He makes no allusion to heaven , as though it was too awfully grand and glorious for him even to refer to . How ineffectually has St. John , in the Revelations , described ...
... things , which it is not lawful or possible for man to utter . He makes no allusion to heaven , as though it was too awfully grand and glorious for him even to refer to . How ineffectually has St. John , in the Revelations , described ...
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... notion of my visitor's vanishing . The change was as rapid as a flash of lightning , without occasioning the slightest commotion in the air , or any perceptible altera- tion in any thing except my own feelings , which 18 COLLOQUY 1 .
... notion of my visitor's vanishing . The change was as rapid as a flash of lightning , without occasioning the slightest commotion in the air , or any perceptible altera- tion in any thing except my own feelings , which 18 COLLOQUY 1 .
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... thing except my own feelings , which were indescribable . I was not prepared for an event so sudden , for a mutation so abrupt . I felt , for a moment , incon- solable at the loss , for he seemed a newly - acquired friend -one whose ...
... thing except my own feelings , which were indescribable . I was not prepared for an event so sudden , for a mutation so abrupt . I felt , for a moment , incon- solable at the loss , for he seemed a newly - acquired friend -one whose ...
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... thing useful can be elicited , let it be done . We must know nothing of fastidiousness , nothing of that excessive caution which affects to be wise and lenient under the cover of being charitable . Whatever abuse presents itself ...
... thing useful can be elicited , let it be done . We must know nothing of fastidiousness , nothing of that excessive caution which affects to be wise and lenient under the cover of being charitable . Whatever abuse presents itself ...
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Page 125 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 145 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 16 - But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; " and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
Page 25 - O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 245 - DIM as the borrow'd 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.
Page 88 - The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular...
Page 312 - The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems to get the better of nature : he...
Page 323 - There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue blow : To plant, to watch, to water there — This be our duty, be our care...
Page 149 - The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 245 - 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.