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... existence , never before regarded as possible , of intense religious zeal with a degree of toleration in feeling and perfect equality of rights ; our intimate connection with that elder world beyond the Atlantic , communicating to us ...
... existence , never before regarded as possible , of intense religious zeal with a degree of toleration in feeling and perfect equality of rights ; our intimate connection with that elder world beyond the Atlantic , communicating to us ...
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... existence are best appreciated by placing the buoyancy of youth against the decrepitude of age ; the season of bloom against the blight of frost . The flower were not so beautiful , did we not know that it must droop and wither : The ...
... existence are best appreciated by placing the buoyancy of youth against the decrepitude of age ; the season of bloom against the blight of frost . The flower were not so beautiful , did we not know that it must droop and wither : The ...
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... existence . - Robertson . ( f ) To honor God , to benefit mankind , To serve with lofty gifts the lowly needs Of the poor race for which the God - man died , And do it all for love - oh this is great . - Holland . · might ( g ) A young ...
... existence . - Robertson . ( f ) To honor God , to benefit mankind , To serve with lofty gifts the lowly needs Of the poor race for which the God - man died , And do it all for love - oh this is great . - Holland . · might ( g ) A young ...
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... what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small commu- nity , the very existence of which you had not suspected , until the sudden dismay and scattering among the members produced by your SUBSTANCE OF EXPRESSION 171 INVENTION .
... what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small commu- nity , the very existence of which you had not suspected , until the sudden dismay and scattering among the members produced by your SUBSTANCE OF EXPRESSION 171 INVENTION .
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... existence . The term philosophy , I may notice , which was originally assumed in modesty , soon lost its Socratic and etymo- logical signification , and returned to the meaning of cogía , or wis- dom . Quintilian calls it nomen ...
... existence . The term philosophy , I may notice , which was originally assumed in modesty , soon lost its Socratic and etymo- logical signification , and returned to the meaning of cogía , or wis- dom . Quintilian calls it nomen ...
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Page 238 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 182 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 86 - Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward : how that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ...
Page 243 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Page 96 - Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 4 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion.
Page 179 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 97 - Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry
Page 238 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 324 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?