The True Light: A PoemS. Hanmer & Company, 1850 - 23 oldal |
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abolition Alexandria altar Ambrose Arianism ashes Athens attain Augustine Avon Beauty makest beheld beneath Bishop bless'd born bright bursting Cæsarea Cappadocia Christ Christian clouds confess'd Constantinople Council crush'd curtain round dead dear Deum discord E'en Earth Egypt's essence Eternal Faith father fill'd flame fled folds of night gentle glow God's golden Greek Gregory harbinger heart Heaven's High heretic Hist holiest angels holy hooded Cenobite hostile human consciousness hymns internal Light learn'd Life's Literar lone loveliness loving Soul Lutterworth makest all things man's mind morn mountain's mystic Nature Nature's Nazianzum ne'er obscure Origen Palestine peace perfect Beauty prey Pythagoras quiet rage rays rill rose Saints Schlegel Severn Shame shines shone shout skies slavery slaves Soul's Spirit Spread o'er stars Sun of Righteousness swell Te Deum things fair TRUE LIGHT Truth Unity unseen Vale vast wand'ring waves Western Church
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22. oldal - ... their slaves as a duty incumbent upon laymen, and loudly inveighed against the scandal of keeping Christians in bondage. Again, the greater part of the forms by which slaves were set free, at various epochs, are founded upon religious motives. It is under the impression of some religious feeling — the hopes of the future, the equality of all Christian men, and so on — that the freedom of the slave is granted. These, it must be confessed, are rather convincing proofs of the influence of the...
22. oldal - Church employed its influence to restrain it ; the clergy in general, and especially several popes, enforced the manumission of their slaves as a duty incumbent upon laymen, and loudly inveighed against the scandal of keeping Christians in bondage. Again, the greater part of the forms by which slaves were set free, at various epochs, are founded upon religious motives. It is under the impression of some religious...
22. oldal - ... soft green isle appears : Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode. When withering blasts of error swept the sky, And Love's last flower seem'd fain to droop and die, How sweet, how lone the ray benign On shelter'd nooks of Palestine! Then to his early home did Love repair, And cheer'd his sickening heart with his own native air.