With such contemplations he performed his voyage less anxiously, which much abated the tediousness thereof and was a comfort and refreshment to him in his solitude and danger.
This same way of teaching by mute actions is to be found in Homer also, affording us useful contemplations upon those very fables which are usually most disliked in him.
The Contemplations of Hall are among his most celebrated works.
Yet he has more thinking than many of the old dramatists; and the praise of one of his critics, though strongly worded, is not without some foundation, that we “seldom find richer contemplations on the nature of man and the world.
A few years seemed to him soon over, compared with those sweeping contemplations on time and infinity with which he had been used to pose himself.
Thunder and lightning, we know, suggested characteristically different contemplations to Franklin.
I solaced my uneasiness as well as I could, by frequent contemplations of approaching happiness; when the sun arose I knew it would set, and congratulated myself at night that I was so much nearer to my wishes.
Such contemplations as these, materialism and the popular philosophy of mind and matter alike forbid; they are only consistent with the intellectual system.
An inward sweet sense of these things at times came into my heart, and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them.
This whole set ofcontemplations should make us practise a very rigid and close self-inspection.
Such contemplations are wholesome and religious only when they drive us to the eternal God, that in Him we may find the stable foundation which imparts its own perpetuity to every life built upon it.
Dreams however rapturous, contemplations however devout, emotions however deep and sacred, make no man pure and good without hard effort, and that to a large extent in the direction of resistance.
But I turn from such considerations as these to the more immediate subject of my contemplations in this discourse.
Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.
But had he lived to see all that Christianity has brought to Light, how would he have lavished out all the Force of Eloquence in those noblest Contemplations which humane Nature is capable of, the Resurrection and the Judgment that follows it?
For this reason as they recommended Moral Duties to qualifie and season the Will for a future Life, so they prescribed several Contemplations and Sciences to rectifie the Understanding.
He adds, that the Result of our Contemplations and Reasonings, while we have no precise Ideas fixed to our Words, must needs be very confused and absurd.
Oh how glorious is the old Age of that great Man, who has spent his Time in such Contemplations as has made this Being, what only it should be, an Education for Heaven!
But he is her husband"-- His contemplations were suddenly arrested.
He now wondered that any events, however startling, however appalling, should have had the power to turn his mind for a moment from the dreary contemplations that had engaged it at the close of day.
This Chapel, standing as it does at the entrance of the Cemetery, is well calculated to solemnize, the mind, and prepare it for the contemplations of the surrounding scene.
An Evening in our Village Contemplations in a Grave Yard A Scene on the Kennebec River To Miss H.
In his contemplations the divisions of time run together, as in the thought of his Maker.
These cheering contemplations more than atone for the cold reception she met at the house of Sister Slocum.
The thoughts, reasonings, and instincts of an animal or insect are as much a mystery to the human intellect as are the lofty contemplations of an archangel.
But, though I could find nothing that I could consider as justifying me in persisting in the shadow of a doubt, yet, as I have said, the uncertainty and restlessness of my contemplations would by no means depart from me.
These contemplations (bhavana) in Buddhism take the place of prayer.
These four stages of abstract meditation must not be confused with the four earnest reflections and the five contemplations (pp.
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