Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Sämtliche Schriften, Band 6

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Seite 443 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; out you express me better than I could express myself.
Seite 427 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where one step broken the great scale's destroy'd ; From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th
Seite 70 - He lov'd his friends (forgive this gushing tear: Alas ! I feel I am no actor here) He lov'd his friends with such a warmth of heart, So clear of...
Seite 442 - have made my system as clear as I ought to have " done, and could not. It is indeed the same sys" stem as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your " own, as they say our natural body is the same still " when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than " I did before, and so will every man else. I know " I meant just what you explain ; but I did not ex...
Seite 427 - ... press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Seite 445 - Nature still working as before, and not perversly or erroneously; not faintly or with feeble Endeavours; but o'erpower'd by a superior Rival, and by another Nature's justly conquering Force.
Seite 425 - Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some...
Seite 437 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.

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