The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals, Religion, and Philosophy : Each Essay Illustrating an Ancient Symbol Or Moral PreceptChapman and Hall, 1847 - 506 pages |
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Page xi
... discover that the most impartial and judicious writers , while they relate these absurd fables , at the same time admit the uncertainty of every event or circumstance in the life of Pythagoras , and confess to the lies and forgeries ...
... discover that the most impartial and judicious writers , while they relate these absurd fables , at the same time admit the uncertainty of every event or circumstance in the life of Pythagoras , and confess to the lies and forgeries ...
Page xiii
... discover a few straggling broken rays of hallowed light emerging from the gloom and twilight in which the mind of man was steeped before Christ appeared ; for every brilliant scintillation from the mind of a Pythagoras or a Plato ...
... discover a few straggling broken rays of hallowed light emerging from the gloom and twilight in which the mind of man was steeped before Christ appeared ; for every brilliant scintillation from the mind of a Pythagoras or a Plato ...
Page xiv
... discover in revela- tion — the nature and mode of existence of that Being ; so the philosophic pagan who discovered manifest evidence of God in the world , or in the general testimony of men , was not satisfied in the negative belief ...
... discover in revela- tion — the nature and mode of existence of that Being ; so the philosophic pagan who discovered manifest evidence of God in the world , or in the general testimony of men , was not satisfied in the negative belief ...
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... discover in it the greatest antagonist to priestcraft and superstition , through which they have , at least in times past , subdued the ab- ject mind , and frightened the timid imagination . 11. Christianity is said , with truth , to ...
... discover in it the greatest antagonist to priestcraft and superstition , through which they have , at least in times past , subdued the ab- ject mind , and frightened the timid imagination . 11. Christianity is said , with truth , to ...
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... discover more links before than after the point on which he had fixed for the cause of the existence of the world . Human experience with him is a great test of truth , and he ridicules every his- tory or declaration not borne out by ...
... discover more links before than after the point on which he had fixed for the cause of the existence of the world . Human experience with him is a great test of truth , and he ridicules every his- tory or declaration not borne out by ...
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Page 176 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 296 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 178 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Page 295 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 6 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Page 65 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 26 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 386 - Eas'd of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight: Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 291 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 172 - O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence...