Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 8
... hand along the back of a sacred cow . While classic literature was dying under the influence of despotism and immorality , the new religion was building up a form of reflection and sentiment which cared little for the temporalities of ...
... hand along the back of a sacred cow . While classic literature was dying under the influence of despotism and immorality , the new religion was building up a form of reflection and sentiment which cared little for the temporalities of ...
Page 9
... hand with a genius that dazzled the third century , and with ideas that formed a labyrinth com- pared with which that of the Minotaur was only a two - roomed log - cabin . Christianity had become a factory of conundrums . It is ...
... hand with a genius that dazzled the third century , and with ideas that formed a labyrinth com- pared with which that of the Minotaur was only a two - roomed log - cabin . Christianity had become a factory of conundrums . It is ...
Page 39
... hands upon our hearts , say , " I love this or I love that because I do . " None of you can rise in your place and tell why you love music . Very often we have to be like the young man who was walking in the garden among the Romans 39 ...
... hands upon our hearts , say , " I love this or I love that because I do . " None of you can rise in your place and tell why you love music . Very often we have to be like the young man who was walking in the garden among the Romans 39 ...
Page 92
... hand them over to the entire human race . When Milton spoke of " vernal bloom " and " summer's rose " and " flocks and herds " and " human face divine " he was thinking of the sublime relations of nature to the happiness of the heart ...
... hand them over to the entire human race . When Milton spoke of " vernal bloom " and " summer's rose " and " flocks and herds " and " human face divine " he was thinking of the sublime relations of nature to the happiness of the heart ...
Page 93
... hand of Providence to go to Avon , that its dramatis persone might be pictured . before they should move along the path of no return . Thither all that moving throng which had adorned , amused and disgraced every hill and vale between ...
... hand of Providence to go to Avon , that its dramatis persone might be pictured . before they should move along the path of no return . Thither all that moving throng which had adorned , amused and disgraced every hill and vale between ...
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