Hugh looked at him with genuine curiosity; it was the first time he had actually met one of these wild visionaries in the flesh.
Are they alone the visionaries who see the best rather than the worst?
I said; for I am well instructed in the ways of the visionaries and in the fashion of their speech.
To the ecstatic visionaries who live, as his old friend lived, so cut off from their natural selves as to be unconscious of their physical body, these are the delights of paradise, seen through the eyes of mystics.
Sufficient for the day was the finding thereof," the proving to scoffers that visionaries had legs to stand upon as well as heads.
He was undaunted by the fact that many visionaries had seen their King Solomon's mines equally clearly; but how many have reached them?
These fantastic visionaries showed themselves favorable to the Jews; they wished this great change to be effected with the participation of those to whom the announcement had first been made.
Some of the Fifth Monarchy visionaries conceded to Jews a Messiah of their own, in the expectation that the struggle for precedence between the Jewish and the Christian saviour would decide itself.
Especially the visionaries in Cromwell's army and among the members of Parliament, who were hoping for the Fifth Monarchy, or the reign of the saints, assigned to the Jewish people a glorious position in the expected millennium.
He in no way resembled the wild visionaries Moses Zacut and Mordecai of Eisenstadt; he did not content himself with empty formulas and flourishes, but sought for sound sense.
We will see their way of acting and speaking, their dreams, their illusions, their reveries; and it will be easy to judge whether they do not resemble visionaries and fanatics much more than wise and enlightened persons.
The extreme rebelliousness which characterises the Russian religious visionaries is manifested to an almost equal extent by all political parties and their leaders.
They were visionaries of a more exalted kind, and often attained to such a state of religious enthusiasm that in their longing to enter heaven they climbed to the roofs of houses and hurled themselves into space.
Nor should it be presented as a religion of pure Theism, aiming to unite all believers in one God into a Church Universal, of which certain visionaries dream.
His country called to him to rescue her from the miserable plight to which the clique of visionariesand self-seeking politicians at Westminster had reduced her.
People were dwelling upon all that was terrible and gloomy in the picture of a future life; the one thought with the visionaries was this--Save yourselves from the wrath to come.
It was just about this time that the works of Jacob Boehm had begun to exercise a very great influence upon the visionaries in England.
In the childhood of every science dogmatism precedes induction, and in the absence of clear knowledge, foolish and wild-eyed visionaries have posed as discoverers again and again.
Let us face the facts," declared the Morning Post on 22nd April last, "we are back again to the doctrine of the Balance of Power, whatever the visionaries and the blind may say.
Nor need we determine whether those who believe in the Balance of Power belong rather to the visionaries or to the blind.
Whether to call them visionaries or the blind, I do not know.
And what is the point of the present advocacy of the Balance of Power by those who think themselves neither visionaries nor blind?
I propose to deal, as faithfully as I can in the time at my disposal, with the visionaries and the blind--when we have discovered who they are.
Believers in the Balance of Power are visionaries if they see in it a guarantee of peace, and blind if they fail to perceive that it naturally and almost inevitably leads to war.
Let us face the facts, whatever the visionaries and the blind may say.
Striking instances of great visionaries may be mentioned, who had almost beyond doubt those very nervous seizures with which the tendency to hallucinations is intimately connected.
Who, after this, can be astonished that Protestantism has produced so many absurd visionaries and furious fanatics?
While mystics and visionaries were glorifying virginity, the Church, bent on governing the body as well as the soul, condemned opinions denying the lawfulness of marriage, which she had constituted a sacrament.
There is no such idea, except in the heads of dreamers and visionaries like Elisha and the good governor and myself, and we do not count.
He is eminently practical, and he harbors a horror for visionaries and their Utopias.
The practical is with them always the antipodes of the ideal; and like other visionaries of a different stamp, they date the Millennium or New Order of Things from the Restoration of the Bourbons.
The committee needs a Maiden, as a Covin needed one, and among thevisionaries of the Psychical Society, there must be some young lady who should be on the House Committee.
Socrates and Joan of Arc werevisionaries as children.
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