And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
If the highest beauty requires both prettiness and harshness, perfection and discord, this place is sublimely beautiful.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.
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