Controversial lettersA. Strahan, 1865 |
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Absolute absurd answer argument assert believe Best and Wisest better Bishop Butler bound Butler called casuistry Celt Church civil power compulsion conceive conscience consciousness course criticism deny difference difficulty divarication divine expediency doctrine doubt duty emotion evil existence experience fact feel felo de se finite flog force formal ratio function Galileo greatest number Guinevere Herbert Spencer Holbeach human idea ideal infinite John Stuart Mill justice lative limits logic means mind moral nature never noumena noumenon object opinion pain persecution phrenologists pleasure Point of Honour possible present principle probability proposition question realised reason recognise reductio ad absurdum regulative theory relation religion religious Roman rose-tree Samuel Bailey sanctuary scheme self-sacrifice sense side simply sophism soul sphere stand suppose sure tell Theism things Thomas thought Thuggee tion true truth unless veracity whole words wrong
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Seite 34 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good: But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.
Seite 305 - YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — Oh!
Seite 359 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Seite 121 - I have argued upon the principles of the Fatalists, which I do not believe : and have omitted a thing of the utmost importance which I do believe, the moral fitness and unfitness of actions, prior to all will whatever; which I apprehend as certainly to determine the Divine conduct, as speculative truth and falsehood necessarily determine the Divine judgment.
Seite 97 - The jewel, the all-valued gold we win From the deceiving powers, depraved in nature, That dwell beneath the day and blessed sunlight. Not without sacrifices are they rendered Propitious, and there lives no soul on earth That e'er retired unsullied from their service.
Seite 285 - So monstrous a principle is far more dangerous than any single interference with liberty; there is no violation of liberty which it would not justify; it acknowledges no right to any freedom whatever, except perhaps to that of holding opinions in secret, without ever disclosing them: for, the moment an opinion which I consider noxious passes any one's lips, it invades all the "social rights" attributed to me by the Alliance.
Seite 106 - It cannot, I suppose, be imagined, even by the most cursory reader, that it is, in any sort, affirmed or implied in any thing said in this chapter, that none can have the benefit of the general redemption, but such as have the advantage of being made acquainted with it in the present life.
Seite 294 - To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and selfwill, it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline.
Seite 150 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Seite 327 - The principle, however, which demands uncontrolled freedom of action in all that concerns only the agents themselves, requires that those who have become bound to one another, in things which concern no third party, should be able to release one another from the engagement : and even without such voluntary release, there are perhaps no contracts or engagements, except those that relate to money or money's worth, of which one can venture to say that there ought to be no liberty whatever of retractation.