The Moral Ideal: A Historic StudyK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company Limited, 1907 - 504 Seiten |
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Æschylus Ahriman ancient antiquity aspirations associated Athenian Athens Augustine belief Brahman Buddhism called century Christian claim contrast Creation Creator dæmon darkness death Demiurgus desire discern Divine dominion Dualism duty earth Edipus Egypt Egyptian embodied Empire Epictetus Eschylus eternal evil exhibit existence expression fact faith father feeling felt freedom genius Gnostic Greece Greek Heaven Hebrew Hellenic hero Herodotus historian hope human Ibid idea ideal Iliad imagination India Indian individual influence interest Isocrates king less light lived Lucretius Manichæan Manichæism meaning mind modern world monarch moral nation Nature never Ormazd Osiris Pantheism perhaps Persian Plato Plutarch poem poet race reader realm recognise religion Rigveda Roman Rome Science seems sense side slave slavery Socrates Sophocles soul spirit sympathy things thinkers thou thought Thucydides tion true truth turn unity utterance Varuna victory Virgil virtue vivid whole words worship yearning Zoroaster
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Seite 234 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Seite 433 - If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.
Seite 387 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Seite 72 - I look out of myself into the world of men, and there I see a sight which fills me with unspeakable distress. The world seems simply to give the lie to that great truth, of which my whole being is so full...
Seite 177 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 28 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Seite 73 - ... the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil...
Seite 72 - I see a sight which fills me with unspeakable distress. The world seems simply to give the lie to that great truth, of which my whole being is so full; and the effect upon me is, in consequence, as a matter of necessity, as confusing as if it denied that I am in existence myself. If I looked into a mirror and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflection of its creator.
Seite 385 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Seite 49 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.