... the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it... Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of Life - Side 291af Warner Fite - 1925 - 320 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1912 - 594 sider
...dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the resistless forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone,... | |
| 1912 - 566 sider
...dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the resistless forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone,... | |
| Emil Carl Wilm - 1914 - 216 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...life ; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces which tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding... | |
| Albert Cornelius Knudson - 1918 - 428 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces which tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1919 - 254 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate^fbr a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding... | |
| earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - 1923 - 398 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life."* The evolution of my belief may be traced thus. In the High Church period, a narrow sectarian practice,... | |
| Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, 1 Selections from the Paradise, Cantos I, X, and XXXIII, Temple Classics edition. 1 Bertraod Russell,... | |
| Samuel Daniel Schmalhausen - 1927 - 366 sider
...dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his...the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, /lis knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that... | |
| Roy Wood Sellars - 1928 - 320 sider
...day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve...free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward [157] life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and... | |
| Dean Turner - 1991 - 328 sider
...thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate [the Christian], to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built;...free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life.11 In reading Why I Am Not a Christian, the logical critic must summon uniquely great patience.... | |
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