Memoirs and Confessions of Francis Volkmar Reinhard: From the GermanPeirce and Parker, 1832 - 164 pages |
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Page 74 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 50 - WJiat connexion has philosophy with revelation, and how can the two be reconciled together ? had always been an interesting and important one to me, and it became increasingly so, from the moment I was called to deliver lectures upon theology. It is in vain for me to attempt to give you a description of the sad struggle in which I saw myself involved every morning; — a struggle which was renewed with every preparation I made for lecturing, and as often accompanied with the greatest helplessness...
Page 71 - Here, however, I must give you a glance into my heart, which will, perhaps, fill you with great surprise ; but which will completely solve for you the riddle of my unshaken adherence to the Gospel in general, and to the doctrines of our church in particular. To do it in a lew words ; in the relation in which 1 stand to God, 1 need a Saviour and Mediator, and just such an one as Christ is. After having...
Page 104 - I have always had considerable difficulty in making a proper use of pronouns. Indeed, I have taken great pains so to use them, that all ambiguity by the reference to a wrong antecedent should be impossible, and yet have often failed in the attempt.
Page 41 - I have always thought that the study of these proved of more use to me than lectures upon homiletica would have done. Here I must remark, that it was reading the ancients which formed in me that idea of genuine eloquence which afterwards always remained with me, which still appears to be the only true one, and which, in my labors, I have ever endeavored to keep before me, though I have come far short of it. I spent some years at the university before I became acquainted with the Grecian orators....
Page 72 - Will they not be obliged to confess, that the very best actions they ever performed are not only entirely destitute of merit, but in addition thereto, so very defective and so far below every thing which God may and must require, that, instead of expecting complete justification, or, perhaps, a reward, they will have to entreat for connivance and forbearance? This humiliating feeling of personal unworthiness has not only not been diminished in me, as I have advanced in goodness, but been rendered...
Page 42 - ... of an eloquence which rolls forth in periods, which are perfect in themselves, are harmonious, and fill the ear.* The more I read this orator, the clearer it appeared to me, that true eloquence is something entirely different from an artificial fluency of speech ; something entirely different from playing with antitheses and witty expressions; something entirely different from poetical prose, or, as Kant calls it, prose run mad ; and finally, something entirely different from that storminess...
Page 41 - ... antiquity, a man, who, for accomplishing his object and producing the greatest effects, never uses a single flower or far-fetched expression, a conceited and remarkable phrase, or any thing that bears the least resemblance to poetical prose ; — who, on the other hand, says and delivers every thing in those terms which are the most natural, correctly distinguishing and strikingly descriptive, — and hence, a man, in whom are to be discovered no traces of affectation, or struggling after wit...
Page 25 - ... upon my imagination and my heart. In it, I discovered the German language in a richness, strength, and, I may say, magnificence, of which I had previously had no conception. In regard to sentiment, sublimity, and train of thought, what a resemblance there was between Klopstock, and my Haller, and how welcome therefore must the former have been to one, whose feelings had been excited and moulded by the latter! Hence, I read my Messiah so often, and with such interest, that in a short time I knew...
Page 67 - Cut. by far the greater part of these illuminating theologians in reality knew not what they were about, and had no idea of the tendency of their efforts. Believing they were doing no small service to the cause of truth, and elevating themselves not a little above the common mass of the people, they rejected now this, now that, dogma from the old system, while at the same time they retained a multitude of others, as true, which, for the same reasons, ought likewise to have been rejected. By this...