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Why and What Am I ?: The Confessions of an Inquirer James Jackson Jarves Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2012 |
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50 cents Abinadab aboriginal affections amid Anacharsis aunt banns of marriage beauty became become better bivalve bless body capacity CHAPTER character cism civilization close communion confess Constantia dear dear reader degree desire devil disappointment divine earth emotions equally evil existence experience external eyes faith father fear feeling felt friendship gave give gone hands happiness Harvard College head heard heart heaven hope human idea illusions impulses individual instincts intellectual knew labor Lanie Lilibolu live looked marriage ment mind missionary moral mother muslin natives nature ness never object once original sin overmastered passions perfect Peru Petronia philanthropy physical pleasure Polynesian Prescott present progress race reader rience seek seemed selfish sincere society soon soothed soul spirit sure sympathy tell things thought tion told true truth virtue wife wisdom wish woman word young youth
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219. oldal - I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours.
237. oldal - GOD, Thou that art the GOD of my health : and my tongue shall sing of Thy righteousness.
299. oldal - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
319. oldal - bless those that curse you, do good to those that hate you — that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven ;' and ' Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing thence ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the sons of the Most High.
86. oldal - My Refuge, my almighty Friend — And can my soul from thee depart, On whom alone my hopes depend ! 2 Whither, ah ! whither shall I go, A wretched wanderer from my Lord ? Can this dark world...
319. oldal - ... universe is but the workshop of each individual soul God manifests a definite design in every particular of creation. There is, to my mind, no law more certain than that hope and aspiration are the forerunners of realization, — the seeds planted in time, to blossom and bear fruit throughout eternity Let each man and woman guard well his or her actions and motives, self-examining and self-denying, acting love to their neighbor and leaning on God ; and so shall all make a more rapid progress...
132. oldal - My chief hobby was to walk about my native city, with my head brimfull of improvements and architectural designs for its ornamentation. I founded societies, built spacious and elegant public edifices, and in a thousand ways made myself a public benefactor, without thought of wealth or distinction to myself.
299. oldal - ... noblest souls, and the moral drawn from his earth experience was full of consolation to those who, like him, had suffered. " I intend to go my own way and win my own destiny. I have already learned enough to know that I am immortal, and that the universe is but the workshop of each individual soul God manifests a definite design in every particular of creation. There is, to my mind, no law more certain than that hope and aspiration are the forerunners of realization, — the seeds planted in...
115. oldal - Every boy has his pet ambition. Mine was to become a historian. Mexico and Peru were my favorite fields of research. Before Prescott's Histories were published I had read most of his printed authorities, and was studying diligently to qualify myself for the labor which he anticipated. How eagerly I devoured his fascinating works when they appeared, but it was with a pang of disappointment to see my own ambition thus frustrated.