The Memorial of Virtue a Sermon Preached in the West Church Jan 22 1865 Af
The Memorial of Virtue a Sermon Preached in the West Church Jan 22 1865 Af
C a Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 " Even where the blaze of transcendent genius eclipses details of conduct, and streams down an aurora to all ages, our persuasion is, that the author of the divine sentences, syllabled for ever in the au", must have been a good man. AVithout goodness, talent has no crown. It can hardly amount to genius, or but to genius not of the highest order, or only of a way- ward and flitting sort. I think Galileo loses more by his recanting, than he gains by h...is discovery of the earth's motion. " I would rather have the regard of my neighbors, " said a New-England poet, ^' tlian the fame of Shakspeare. " " I would rather have written Watts's Hymns, " said the holy man, your former min- ister, " than the plays of Shakspeare. " The account of some men, like the geological record, is imperfect. But it has been said, not any man's genius, but only his character, what he wills to be, is immortal. I lis genius may be an accident of his organization, like his temperament, complexion, or tone of voice.
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