John Ruskin, Preacher, and Other EssaysAbingdon Press, 1921 - 187 pages |
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... ideal man to organize a new social sys- tem ; we find it slightly difficult to picture John the Baptist in the guise of an ecclesiastical organizer . Ruskin was an artist and a preacher and not an administrator . Of him it can be said ...
... ideal man to organize a new social sys- tem ; we find it slightly difficult to picture John the Baptist in the guise of an ecclesiastical organizer . Ruskin was an artist and a preacher and not an administrator . Of him it can be said ...
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... ideal- kindling sermons than it is to find the out- lines of his theology . He was far from being a systematic thinker . It is hard to compress into stern syllogisms the fine frenzy of the poet . Until he was forty years of age his ...
... ideal- kindling sermons than it is to find the out- lines of his theology . He was far from being a systematic thinker . It is hard to compress into stern syllogisms the fine frenzy of the poet . Until he was forty years of age his ...
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... ideal of self - development , which teaches that the highest due of man is to " augment the ex- cellence of his nature and make an intelligent being more intelligent . Some one may ob- ject , saying , " Is it not the duty of a Christian ...
... ideal of self - development , which teaches that the highest due of man is to " augment the ex- cellence of his nature and make an intelligent being more intelligent . Some one may ob- ject , saying , " Is it not the duty of a Christian ...
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... ideal . Here we forget the harsher realities of life and catch faint adumbrations of the golden days which are yet to be . Here there 66 falls not hail or rain or any snow , ... Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep - meadowed ...
... ideal . Here we forget the harsher realities of life and catch faint adumbrations of the golden days which are yet to be . Here there 66 falls not hail or rain or any snow , ... Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep - meadowed ...
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Lewis Herbert Chrisman. For many of us the land ideal looms up against the misty backgrounds of the past . There is that within man which makes him idealize bygone days . The remembrance of them brings to the heart that " ... feeling of ...
Lewis Herbert Chrisman. For many of us the land ideal looms up against the misty backgrounds of the past . There is that within man which makes him idealize bygone days . The remembrance of them brings to the heart that " ... feeling of ...
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Page 95 - God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Page 158 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 97 - Not on the vulgar mass Called 'work' must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Page 155 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 47 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 98 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 63 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 88 - And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 30 - ... From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Page 33 - They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that great Being who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...