The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... spirit of humanism , had he reversed the proposition , and exclaimed , in the words of Shakspeare— " There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ! " Law's observation , " that every man knows some ...
... spirit of humanism , had he reversed the proposition , and exclaimed , in the words of Shakspeare— " There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ! " Law's observation , " that every man knows some ...
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... spirit of the Scriptures- " The Gentiles which have not the law , do by nature the things contained in the law . " Rom . ii . 14 .— “ God is no respecter of persons , but in every nation he that feareth him , and worketh right- eousness ...
... spirit of the Scriptures- " The Gentiles which have not the law , do by nature the things contained in the law . " Rom . ii . 14 .— “ God is no respecter of persons , but in every nation he that feareth him , and worketh right- eousness ...
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... spirit Cafarielli , when told that Farinelli had been made a sort of Prime Minister in Spain , replied- " No man deserves it better , for his voice is abso- lutely unrivalled . " MYSTERY . - To him who has been sated and disappointed by ...
... spirit Cafarielli , when told that Farinelli had been made a sort of Prime Minister in Spain , replied- " No man deserves it better , for his voice is abso- lutely unrivalled . " MYSTERY . - To him who has been sated and disappointed by ...
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... spirit longs to fly upward - when the finite yearns for the infinite , the limited in intellect for the omniscient , the help- less for the omnipotent , the real for the impossible . Thus to flutter above the world , on the extended ...
... spirit longs to fly upward - when the finite yearns for the infinite , the limited in intellect for the omniscient , the help- less for the omnipotent , the real for the impossible . Thus to flutter above the world , on the extended ...
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... spirit , when its tegument feels the touches of decay . We sometimes talk of men falling into their second childhood , when we should rather say that they have never emerged from their first , but have always been in an intellectual ...
... spirit , when its tegument feels the touches of decay . We sometimes talk of men falling into their second childhood , when we should rather say that they have never emerged from their first , but have always been in an intellectual ...
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