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Page 284 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 237 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.
Page 219 - I go away, and come unto you. If you loved me, you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father. For the Father is greater than I.
Page 237 - Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you hope. 46 For if you believed Moses you would believe me also, for he wrote of me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?
Page 268 - I am afraid you are not exempt from the delusions of flowers, green turf, and birds ; they all afford slight gratification, but not worth an hour of rational conversation: and rational conversation in sufficient quantities is only to be had from the congregation of a million of people in one spot.
Page 249 - Jeffrey sticks to his myrtle illusions, and treats my attacks with as much contempt as if I had been a wild visionary, 'who had never breathed his caller air, nor lived and suffered under the rigour of his climate, nor spent five years in discussing metaphysics and medicine in that garret of the earth — that knuckle-end of England — that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.
Page 211 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are...
Page 267 - They all burst into tears. It flung me also into a great agitation of tears, and I wept and groaned for a long time. Then I rose, and said I thought it was very likely to end in their keeping a buggy, at which we all laughed as violently. The poor old lady, who was sleeping in a garret because she could not bear to enter into the room lately inhabited by her husband, sent for me and kissed me, sobbing with a thousand emotions. The charitable physician wept too. ... I never passed so remarkable a...
Page 369 - ... so distinguished a proficient in polite learning, that he opened a school in his monastery, for teaching the sons of the nobility the arts of versification, and the elegancies of composition.
Page 342 - Sire, will you grant and observe, and by your oath confirm to the people of England the laws and customs granted to them by the ancient kings of England...