innocencies

"It is to be hoped that we all have some friend," James writes, "perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God, and in whom religious gladness, being in possession from the outset, needs no deliverance from any antecedent burden."

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Some, perhaps, may think light of those ways of folly and vanity wherein childhood doth, or left alone would, consume itself; -- that there is no moral evil in those childish innocencies.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And shining flower-like in the grass my innocencies lie.

Dream 1922

It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God, and in whom religious gladness, being in possession from the outset, needs no deliverance from any antecedent burden.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God, and in whom religious gladness, being in possession from the outset, needs no deliverance from any antecedent burden.

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

God-inspired; full, indeed, of faults and innocencies, but divine, as good children are.

Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859

Roman Catholic countries there are maidens devoted to the monastic life; and because they believe these maidens to be pious innocencies above the rest of their sex, they view them as the dainties and delicacies of their lust.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

The women, who appear to them as innocencies, are such as regard the evil of adultery as an enormous sin, and who therefore highly prize chastity, and at the same time piety: these women are the objects which set them on fire.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

The lust of seducing innocencies is neither the lust of defloration, nor the lust of violation, but is peculiar and singular by itself; it prevails more especially with the deceitful.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

The lusts treated of in the four following chapters, are not only lusts of adultery, but are more grievous than those since they exist only from adulteries, being taken to after adulteries are become loathsome; as the lust of defloration, which is first treated of, and which cannot previously exist with any one; in like manner the lust of varieties, the lust of violation, and the lust of seducing innocencies, which are afterwards treated of.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730