Trial of the rev. Edward Irving, a cento of criticismShackell and Arrowsmith, Johnston's-Court, Fleet Street, 1823 - 96 Seiten |
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Seite 77 - Would to heaven it were allowed to others to do likewise ! And he hath been rewarded with many new cogitations of nature and of nature's God; and he hath heard, in the stillness of his retreat, many new voices of his conscious spirit — all which he hath sung in harmonious numbers. But, mark the Epicurean soul of this degraded age ! They have frowned on him ; they have spit on him ; they have grossly abused him. The masters of this critical generation (like generation, like masters!) have raised...
Seite 27 - I love the sex, and sometimes would reverse The tyrant's wish, " that mankind only had One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce :" My wish is quite as wide, but not so bad, And much more tender on the whole than fierce : It being (not now, but only while a lad) That womankind had but one rosy mouth To kiss them all at once from north to south.
Seite 35 - Ms bonnet. What man, for example, unless the faculties of his mind were disturbed, could run on in such a strain as the following : — " Masterful men, or the masterful current of opinion, hath ploughed with the word of God, and the fruit has been to inveigle the mind into the exclusive admiration of some few truths, which being planted in the belief, and sacrificed to in all religious expositions and discourses, have become popular idols, which Jrovcn heresy and excommunication upon all who dare...
Seite 76 - There is one man in these realms, who hath addressed himself to such a godlike life, and dwelt alone amidst the grand and lovely scenes of nature, and the deep unfathomable secrecies of human thought. Would to heaven it were allowed to others to do likewise ! And he hath been rewarded with many new cogitations of nature and of nature's God ; and he hath heard in the stillness of his retreat, many new voices of his conscious spirit — all which he hath sung in harmonious numbers. But, mark the Epicurean...
Seite 10 - Obey the Scriptures, or you perish. You may despise the honour done you by the Majesty above, you may spurn the sovereignty of Almighty God, you may revolt from creation's universal rule to bow before its Creator, and stand in momentary rebellion against his ordinances ; his overtures of mercy you may cast contempt on, and crucify afresh the Royal Personage who...
Seite 10 - But come at length it will, when revenge shall array herself to go forth, and anguish shall attend her, and from the wheels of their chariot ruin and dismay shall shoot far and wide among the enemies of the king, whose desolation shall not tarry, and whose destruction, as the wings of the whirlwind, shall be swift, hopeless as the conclusion of eternity, and the reversion of doom. Then around the fiery concave of the wasteful pit the clang of grief shall ring, and the flinty heart, which repelled...
Seite 89 - They boast of the greatest novelists, the greatest preachers, the greatest philanthropists, and the greatest blackguards in the world. Sir Walter Scott stands at the head of them for Scotch humour, Dr. Chalmers for Scotch logic, Mr. Owen for Scotch utopianism, and Mr. Blackwood for Scotch impudence : Unrivalled four ! And here is Mr. Irving, who threatens to make a fifth, and stultify all our London orators from " kingly Kensington to Blackwall!
Seite 29 - California) man has ten lines tattooed across the inside of the left arm, about half way between the wrist and the elbow ; and in measuring shell-money, he takes the string in his right hand, draws one end over his left thumbnail, and if the other end reaches to the uppermost of the tattoo lines, the five shells are worth $25 in gold or $5 a shell. Of course it is only one in ten thousand that is long enough to reach...
Seite 77 - ... recovering. — All for what? For making nature and his own bosom his home, and daring to sing of the simple but sublime truths which were revealed to him; for daring to be free in his manner of uttering genuine feeling and depicting natural beauty, and grafting thereon devout and solemn contemplations of God. Had he sent his Cottage Wanderer forth upon an excursion...
Seite 70 - We feel that questions touching the truths of revelation have been too long treated in a logical or scholastic method, which doth address itself to I know not what fraction of the mind ; and not finding this used in Scripture, or successful in practice, we are disposed to try another method, and appeal our cause to every sympathy of the soul which it doth- naturally 'bear upon. We...