The new Atlantis: or, Ideals old and new, a dialogue, by a disciple of Buckle1884 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Æschylus amongst ancient ancient Rome Arab Asia Athens Babylon Babylonian Brahmanism Britain and Europe Buddhist centuries Chaldee character China to California Chris Christian Church Cicero Civil civilisation classic common Constantinople course Creed culture disciples Divine doctrine duties earth Eastern Education of Humanity Epictetus Eupatrid Europe and Britain European Faith Fathers favour Founder Genesis gods greatest blessing Greece Greek heart heaven Hebrew Hellenic hereditary Herodotus Hindu History holy honour HUMAN IDEALS ACCORDING imperial intellectual Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Josephus Judaism literary literature Luther masters mind modern science Mohammed Monotheism moral code Moses nature Nicene Creed numbers origin Parsee Patriarchal peculiar Persian phenomena philosophers Plato poetic poets political popular primitive Prophets Protestantism pure races Reformation regarding religion religious reverence Revival of Learning Roman Empire Rome Sacred Books sacrifice social soul Spirit Temple thee Theism theology thou tianism tion tranquillity truth universal Western whole Wisdom worship
Popular passages
Page 162 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 162 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 120 - Tell me not in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal : " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Page 108 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 45 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 50 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 185 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 52 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg.
Page 108 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 13 - What but this, The universal instinct of repose, The longing for confirmed tranquillity, Inward and outward ; humble, yet sublime : — The life where hope and memory are as one ; Earth quiet and unchanged ; the human Soul Consistent in self-rule ; and heaven revealed To meditation, in that quietness...