Moral perfections are raised higher by you in the softer sex; as if men were of too coarse a mould for heaven to work on, and that the image of divinity could not be cast to likeness in so harsh a metal.
You own whate'er perfections man can boast, And, if she view you with my eyes, she's lost.
The one culminates in animal enjoyment, the other expands to its ultimate conceptions in the perfections of Divine Love.
The beames of yourperfections shine so bright, That straight-way they dispell all other light.
Those perfections which lie scattered among various masters are now united in one general idea, which is henceforth to regulate his taste and enlarge his imagination.
We can easily, like the ancients, suppose a Jupiter to be possessed of all those powers and perfections which the subordinate Deities were endowed with separately.
And thus, my son, the wise embark on these six perfections taught by Buddha, as on a ship, and so cross the ocean of temporal existence.
They are to you but like inchanted viands, On which you seem to feed, yet pine with hunger; And those so rare perfections in my Son Which would make others happy, render me A wretched Mother.
Do, and prosper: Excellent creature, whoseperfections make Even sorrow lovely, if your frowns thus take me, What would your smiles doe?
There were, indeed, mystics like the author of the immortal De Imitatione, in whom the special qualities of Christian doctrine seem to have grown pale in a brighter flood of devout aspiration towards the perfections of a single Being.
Then within a dozen lines he admits that there can be no direct proof either way; we must content ourselves with settling it by means of inference from the perfections of God.
The whole is therefore a system of manifestation; on his part of the perfectionsand rights of the Deity, and on theirs of holiness and happiness, or of sin and misery, in the relations in which they exist.
His undertaking included the works of creation, providence and redemption; the physical and moral government of the world, and the manifestation of the Divine perfections to all intelligent creatures.
Such a notion seems in every view incongruous and preposterous, without reason or necessity, inconsistent with the law of creation in respect to man, and unworthy of the perfections and of the moral purposes and administration of the Creator.
I regret not to have kept some fine examples of these, as their perfections are far beyond all imitation.
Wilfred immediately established her among the half-dozen perfectionshe had discovered in that line.
God is glorified when the perfections of his nature, and his execution of his purposes in the works of creation and providence, are celebrated.
More fully than any other exercise, hisperfections and administration it contemplates, and in a manner all-important shows forth his praise.
Now this inventory of perfections shows great knowledge of the horse; and is good matter-of-fact poetry.
That is, that face of it which is turned toward the divine world becomes also opposite to the contingent world, and by this, both its merciful and spiritual, as well as contingent, perfections become complete.
These humanperfections and merciful bounties are that peace which was promised and spoken of by Christ.
This kind of happiness appeareth in one’s soul with the love of God and suffereth one to attain to the virtues and perfections of the world of humanity.
That is, the same perfections and virtues and properties which existed in the past springtime have returned during this present springtime.
Yea, this fruit is the knowing God and love for God, and reliance upon God and is the virtue with which the reality of man is adorned, and it is the perfections which are the great gift for the children of Adam (i.
Now return, behave and act with perfect firmness, according to the heavenly teachings, in those regions, in order that you may become the cause by which human perfections will be attained.
But the heavenly Jerusalem, which is established upon the Apex of the world and the Holy of Holies of the Almighty, which hath hoisted its banner, comprehendeth and includeth in it all the perfections and teachings of the former dispensations.
It was this young officer, endowed with all perfections imaginable, whom Heaven had designed for her, to complete her happiness.
With all these perfections the princess had so fine a form, and so majestic an air, that the sight of her was sufficient to inspire love and admiration.
No pains were spared in her education, so that at thirteen she became most accomplished, and the fame of her charms and perfections was spread throughout the city.
Now all created perfections are included in the perfection of being; for things are perfect, precisely so far as they have being after some fashion.
I answer that, All created perfections are in God.
We cannot know the essence of God in this life, as He really is in Himself; but we know Him accordingly as He is represented in the perfections of creatures; and thus the names imposed by us signify Him in that manner only.
I answer that, According to the preceding article, our knowledge of God is derived from the perfections which flow from Him to creatures, which perfections are in God in a more eminent way than in creatures.
Further, habits are proportioned to their powers, as perfections to what they make perfect.
So the more an agent is established in the share of the Divine goodness, so much the more does it strive to transmit its perfections to others as far as possible.
Since therefore God is the first effective cause of things, the perfections of all things must pre-exist in God in a more eminent way.
But material things cannot be the perfections of angels, since they are beneath them.
So we must consider that in the angelic orders all spiritual perfections are common to all the angels, and that they are all more excellently in the superior than in the inferior angels.
Nature has her perfections to show that she is the image of God, and her defects to show that she is no more than his image.
It is the manifestation of the divine perfections to his intelligent creatures.
The contemplation of the infinite perfections of God, and the glories of his moral government.
Is my soul ever moved with sweet emotion in contemplating the infinite moral perfections of God?
Then Susanna went to her bed, and Miss Mackenzie was left alone to think over the perfections and imperfections of Mr Samuel Rubb, junior.
He said nothing now of the perfections of that excellent woman, of whom not long since he had spoken in terms almost too strong for any simple human virtues.
He was even accustomed now to waiting in the hot salons in the Rue de la Paix, while these stately perfections were being essayed.
And over all his qualities and perfections his parents then said wonderful things together!
All the good of the creature, all the perfections of derived, contingent existences, have an eminent transcendental type in God.
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