Dante and Other Waning ClassicsAcropolis Publishing Company, 1915 - 127 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... reasons for doing so . We should not be misled into blindly worshipping literary pro- ductions with whose central ideas and views of life we totally disagree . My attempt to ... reason I also wish to state that it is not absolutely PREFACE 7.
... reasons for doing so . We should not be misled into blindly worshipping literary pro- ductions with whose central ideas and views of life we totally disagree . My attempt to ... reason I also wish to state that it is not absolutely PREFACE 7.
Pàgina 16
... reason for punishing traitors by ice because of their coldness , any more than in making heretics subject to fire in accordance with the medieval tradition . The conse- quence of robbery is not shown by making thieves steal the bodies ...
... reason for punishing traitors by ice because of their coldness , any more than in making heretics subject to fire in accordance with the medieval tradition . The conse- quence of robbery is not shown by making thieves steal the bodies ...
Pàgina 23
... reason than that it so pleases God . Seven of the heavens are named after the sun , the moon and the five planets then known . The last three are those of the fixed stars , the crystalline heaven and the empyrean . These abodes are ...
... reason than that it so pleases God . Seven of the heavens are named after the sun , the moon and the five planets then known . The last three are those of the fixed stars , the crystalline heaven and the empyrean . These abodes are ...
Pàgina 25
... reason that God made Rome go through its period of history was it should reach the times of Tiberius and of Titus , as in the reign of the former Christ was crucified and in the reign of the latter this crucifixion was avenged upon the ...
... reason that God made Rome go through its period of history was it should reach the times of Tiberius and of Titus , as in the reign of the former Christ was crucified and in the reign of the latter this crucifixion was avenged upon the ...
Pàgina 27
... reason or other Solomon is one of the theologians , although because of his amorousness and idolatry he should have been in hell . Thomas Aquinas is the first spokesman and he enters upon the following important problem . Why is Solomon ...
... reason or other Solomon is one of the theologians , although because of his amorousness and idolatry he should have been in hell . Thomas Aquinas is the first spokesman and he enters upon the following important problem . Why is Solomon ...
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Dante and Other Waning Classics: Dante, Milton, Bunyan, A. Kempis, St ... Albert Mordell Visualització completa - 1915 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 125 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Pàgina 85 - What can the world profit thee without JESUS? To be without JESUS is a grievous hell ; and to be with JESUS, a sweet paradise. If JESUS be with thee, no enemy shall be able to hurt thee '. He that findeth JESUS, findeth a good treasure ", yea, a Good above all good.
Pàgina 126 - ... disagree; but the pleasure derivable from it, in any sense, will be found in the direct ratio of the reader's capacity to smother its true purpose, in the direct ratio of his ability to keep the allegory out of sight, or of his inability to comprehend it.
Pàgina 6 - I say, from the nature of the case, if literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless literature of sinful man.
Pàgina 85 - What can the world profit thee without Jesus ? " To be without Jesus is a grievous hell ; and to be with Jesus, a sweet paradise. " If Jesus be with thee, no enemy shall be able to hurt thee.
Pàgina 31 - ... meditates it there where every day Christ is bought and sold. The blame will follow the injured party, in outcry, as is wont ; but the vengeance will be testimony to the truth which dispenses it. Thou shalt leave everything beloved most dearly; and this is the arrow which the bow of exile shoots first. Thou shalt make proof how the bread of others savors of salt, and how hard a 5.
Pàgina 86 - Know for certain that thou oughtest to lead a dying life. * And the more any man dieth to himself, so much the more doth he begin to live unto God. No man is fit to comprehend things heavenly, unless he submit himself to the bearing of adversities for Christ's sake. Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more wholesome to thee in this world, than that thou suffer cheerfully for Christ.
Pàgina 123 - a man to put into a museum, but not into your house ; another Zerah Colburn ; a prodigy of imaginative function, executive rather than contemplative or wise." The confession of an insensibility ranging from Shelley to Dickens and from Dante to Miss Austen and taking Don Quixote and Aristophanes on the way, is a large allowance to have to make for a man of letters, and may appear to confirm but slightly any claim of intellectual...
Pàgina 126 - There is no conception of the faith that a man should do his duty cheerfully with all his might though, as far as he can see, he will never be paid directly or indirectly either here or hereafter. Still less is there any conception that unless a man has this faith he is not worth thinking about.