William Ellery Channing: A Centennial MemoryRoberts Bros., 1880 - 259 Seiten The 9 plates in this volume are made up of "1 collotype from a painting, 4 line from art, 4 artotypes from photographs. J. A. Williams, Newport, R.I., photographer and printer. Williams, one of the local photographers to sign up with the Artotype Co., produced almost no artotypes. This is the only book to have prints by him." -- Hanson Collection Catalog, p. 64. |
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amidst beauty blessed Boston boyhood breathed called Calvinist character child Chris Christ Christian Church communion divine doctrine earth earthly eloquence expression eyes Ezra Stiles faith Father Federal Street feel felt Fénelon Gannett glory God's gospel growing Harriet Martineau heart heaven holy Hopkins human idea influence Jesus Joseph Tuckerman labor letters Liberal Liberal Christian light living look manhood meditation meeting-house memory ment mind minister ministry moral mother nature nephew ness never Newport ning ning's pastor peace peculiar perfect period philosophy piety preached preacher profound pulpit religion religious remarkable reverence ROBERTS BROTHERS says seems sense sentiment serene sermon sion slavery society soul speak spirit strength style sympathy tarian tenary tender Theodore Parker theology thing thought tion total depravity Trinitarians true truth Unitarian voice Washington Allston whole William Channing William Ellery WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING words writes young Channing youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 24 - He is made one with nature; there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird: He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above. He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one...
Seite 240 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Seite 27 - No spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise amidst the tempest. There, softened by beauty, I poured out my thanksgiving and contrite confessions. There, in reverential sympathy with the mighty power around me, I became conscious of power within.
Seite 96 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Seite 22 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Seite 45 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Seite 216 - The best style is not that which puts the reader most easily and in the shortest time in possession of a writer's naked thoughts; but that which is the truest image of a great intellect, which conveys fully and carries farthest into other souls the conceptions and feelings of a profound and lofty spirit.
Seite 67 - Brookline hills. The place and the hour were always sacred in his memory, and he frequently referred to them with grateful awe. It seemed to him, that he then passed through a new spiritual birth, and entered upon the day of eternal peace and joy.
Seite 147 - I could see that he grew bolder and stronger on the subject, while I felt that I grew wiser and more just. At first I thought him timid, and even slightly timeserving ; but I soon discovered that I formed this estimate from ignorance of his character. I learned that it was justice to all, not popularity for himself, which made EELATIONS TO ABOLITIONISTS. 155 him so cautious. He constantly grew upon my respect, until I came to regard him as the wisest, as well as the gentlest, apostle of humanity.
Seite 44 - From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.