The strait and other discourses, with a lecture on Thomas Carlyle. By a Scotch preacher1881 |
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Сторінка 76 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Сторінка 201 - In hut and hall, as the heart unfolds itself in many-coloured joy and woe of existence, the name, the voice of that joy and that woe, is the name and voice which Burns has given them. Strictly speaking, perhaps no British man has so deeply affected the thoughts and feelings of so many men, as this solitary and altogether private individual, with means apparently the humblest.
Сторінка 46 - Consider how, even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony, the instant he sets himself to work...
Сторінка 200 - quick to learn ;' a man of keen vision, before whom common disguises afforded no concealment. His understanding saw through the hollowness even of accomplished deceivers ; but there was a generous credulity in his heart. And so did our Peasant show himself among us ; ' a soul like an ^Eolian harp, in whose strings ' the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself
Сторінка 73 - My brother, the brave man has to give his Life away. Give it, I advise thee; — thou dost not expect to sell thy Life in an adequate manner? What price, for example, would content thee? The just price of thy LIFE to...
Сторінка 98 - The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Сторінка 150 - And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy : and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you ; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Сторінка 204 - Alas, his fine Scotch face, with its shaggy honesty, sagacity and goodness, when we saw it latterly on the Edinburgh streets, was all worn with care, the joy all fled from it ; — ploughed deep with labour and sorrow. We shall never forget it ; we shall never see it again. Adieu, Sir Walter, pride of all Scotchmen, take our proud and sad •farewell.
Сторінка 203 - When he departed he took a Man's life along with him." No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.
Сторінка 104 - Religion that grounds itself on fear," said, they, "is regarded among us. With the reverence to which a man should give dominion in his mind, he can, in paying honour, keep his own honour ; he is not disunited with himself as in the former case. The Religion which depends on Reverence for what is Above us, we denominate the Ethnic ; it is the Religion of the Nations, and the first happy deliverance from a degrading fear : all Heathen religions, as we call them, are of this sort, whatsoever names...