Ethical Addresses, כרך 8

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S. Burns Weston, 1901
 

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עמוד 10 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
עמוד 107 - I cannot tell you how inexpressibly they shocked me. Paul had neither wife nor child, or he must have known that his alternative involved a blasphemy against all that was best and noblest in human nature. I could have laughed with scorn. What! because I am face to face with irreparable loss, because I have given back to the source...
עמוד 89 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
עמוד 102 - Kicked into the world a boy without guide or training, or with worse than none, I confess to my shame that few men have drunk deeper of all kinds of sin than I. Happily, my course was arrested in time — before I had earned absolute destruction — and for long years I have been slowly and painfully climbing, with many a fall, towards better things.
עמוד 32 - I had no occasion for money. To send a man a gift when he has no occasion for it, is to bribe him. How is it possible that -a superior man should be taken with a bribe ?
עמוד 107 - As I stood behind the coffin of my little son the other day, with my mind bent on anything but disputation, the officiating minister read, as a part of his duty, the words, "If the dead rise not again, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." I cannot tell you how inexpressibly they shocked me. Paul had neither wife nor child, or he must have known that his alternative involved a blasphemy against all that was best and noblest in human nature. I could have laughed with scorn. What ! because I...
עמוד 107 - I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other, as the penalty, still I will not lie.
עמוד 33 - I was apprehensive for my safety, and taking measures for my protection. The message was, ' I have heard that you are taking measures to protect yourself, and send this to help you in procuring arms.
עמוד 69 - But will God indeed dwell on the earth .' Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded...
עמוד 28 - I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

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