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... French history from that age , we will gradu- ally approach the epochs of more recent dis- turbances , and so arrive at the conclusion that our British politicians are as surely the de- fenders of our country as our warriors . a famous ...
... French history from that age , we will gradu- ally approach the epochs of more recent dis- turbances , and so arrive at the conclusion that our British politicians are as surely the de- fenders of our country as our warriors . a famous ...
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... French to keep up a custom , they are firm enough in their resolve . Let them turn their eyes to our country , behold now a queen is on the throne , if they can exclaim " a wo- man , " let them also add a just woman and a Christian ...
... French to keep up a custom , they are firm enough in their resolve . Let them turn their eyes to our country , behold now a queen is on the throne , if they can exclaim " a wo- man , " let them also add a just woman and a Christian ...
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... French set up reigned twelve years ; but , at his death , the usual conse- quence of destroying the legitimate race of kings showed itself in civil wars . Charles's son succeeded to Rodolph , his father's success- ful rival , but he in ...
... French set up reigned twelve years ; but , at his death , the usual conse- quence of destroying the legitimate race of kings showed itself in civil wars . Charles's son succeeded to Rodolph , his father's success- ful rival , but he in ...
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Rose Ellen Temple. follow the thread of French and English history together , and briefly consider how much law overruled the strength of arms . Philip the First's reign , taken upon the But whole , is glorious ; that is , allowing the ...
Rose Ellen Temple. follow the thread of French and English history together , and briefly consider how much law overruled the strength of arms . Philip the First's reign , taken upon the But whole , is glorious ; that is , allowing the ...
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... French throne , and the heroic devotion of the Maid of Orleans , endeavouring to restore Charles the Sixth's Dauphin to the right of his forefathers . We are not disposed to enter upon a critical essay , to prove whether the heroine was ...
... French throne , and the heroic devotion of the Maid of Orleans , endeavouring to restore Charles the Sixth's Dauphin to the right of his forefathers . We are not disposed to enter upon a critical essay , to prove whether the heroine was ...
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Page 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.