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Page 9
Peter the Hermit ' s enthusiasm could lay down no law for prudence or managing
action , and of five hundred thousand persons engaged , we question if any felt a
holy zeal . To fight was the belle passion of that bloody age ; and the first ...
Peter the Hermit ' s enthusiasm could lay down no law for prudence or managing
action , and of five hundred thousand persons engaged , we question if any felt a
holy zeal . To fight was the belle passion of that bloody age ; and the first ...
Page 10
The arrangements of politicians , the pros and cons for treaty or war , are
essential as the very weapons with which the military defend themselves . And
Peter the Hermit might have told his beads far better than send an army to the
holy wars .
The arrangements of politicians , the pros and cons for treaty or war , are
essential as the very weapons with which the military defend themselves . And
Peter the Hermit might have told his beads far better than send an army to the
holy wars .
Page 61
If we deem the life of a virtuous man beautiful , there is a still more holy beauty in
his death : he has so lived as to look forward to a brighter inheritance ; his
conscience has echoed language born above ; his sins have been the heir -
looms of ...
If we deem the life of a virtuous man beautiful , there is a still more holy beauty in
his death : he has so lived as to look forward to a brighter inheritance ; his
conscience has echoed language born above ; his sins have been the heir -
looms of ...
Page 77
We have been thus bold , because , at this present moment , we could trace the
names of two or three popular members who are falling into error , who began
their political career with a holy feeling of patriotism at their heart , and are ending
...
We have been thus bold , because , at this present moment , we could trace the
names of two or three popular members who are falling into error , who began
their political career with a holy feeling of patriotism at their heart , and are ending
...
Page 99
... perhaps imperfectly , yet most diligently , have sought to fathom the true and
earnest basis , the purest feeling , and the surest method by which both
Sovereign and subject are united together by the high and holy bonds of “
Political FAME .
... perhaps imperfectly , yet most diligently , have sought to fathom the true and
earnest basis , the purest feeling , and the surest method by which both
Sovereign and subject are united together by the high and holy bonds of “
Political FAME .
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Page 43 - 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 79 - ... 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 79 - 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 61 - 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 80 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 61 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Political Fame |
| Author | Rose Ellen Temple |
| Publisher | William Pickering, 1847 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 99 pages |
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