And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship ? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the... A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion - Sayfa 368Theodore Parker tarafından - 1846 - 380 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1842 - 470 sayfa
...unbelief, which are casting malignant influences around us, and making the hearts of good men sad. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than...lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die we do not mention them." (Address delivered before... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 sayfa
...unbelief which are casting malignant influences around us, and making the hearts of good men sad. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honour. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you will... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 sayfa
...unbelief, which are casting malignant influences around us, and making the hearts of good men sad. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than...the hope of other worlds; and age is without honour. Society lives to trifles; and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you will... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 sayfa
...friends, in these two errors, I think, I find the causes of a decaying church and a wasting unbelief. And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than...lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you... | |
| 1850 - 818 sayfa
...in its uame and place.' He deplores the ' decaying of the church,' as he calls it, and concludes : ' What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than...leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market ; Literatur-^ becomes frivolous ; Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 sayfa
...and of the thought of the eternal years, and then, as a great writer says, with a different allusion, all things go to decay ; genius leaves the temple...of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds ; the virtues of its soul decline — cheerfulness, susceptibility of simple pleasures, energy of will,... | |
| Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 276 sayfa
...both doctrinal and practical, we can say. with another sense and application than the writer had, " What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than...decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. SB Amen. For this cause God gave... | |
| Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 276 sayfa
...both doctrinal and practical, we can say with another sense and application than the writer had, " What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss .of worship V Then all tilings go to decay. Gemus leaves the temple to haunt the senate 96 97 served the creature... | |
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