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... humanity of this act has been so fre- quently discussed , that we deem it unnecessary to touch further upon the subject . Having now arrived at the period when the Norman Conqueror invaded England , we will follow the thread of French ...
... humanity of this act has been so fre- quently discussed , that we deem it unnecessary to touch further upon the subject . Having now arrived at the period when the Norman Conqueror invaded England , we will follow the thread of French ...
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Rose Ellen Temple. important avocations ? Do we not feel that myriads of human beings have delegated to each member the charge of their happiness ? Ye aristocrats , there ye must look upon us all as brethren - brethren in life , equals ...
Rose Ellen Temple. important avocations ? Do we not feel that myriads of human beings have delegated to each member the charge of their happiness ? Ye aristocrats , there ye must look upon us all as brethren - brethren in life , equals ...
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... human breast . We do not allude to the party feeling which must necessarily arise from politics being designated by various names , viz . Tory , Whig , Radical , Conservative ; but there is a totally different division to this — man ...
... human breast . We do not allude to the party feeling which must necessarily arise from politics being designated by various names , viz . Tory , Whig , Radical , Conservative ; but there is a totally different division to this — man ...
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... to get rid of his brother . Peter the Great very wisely remarked on his human weakness , " I can reform my people , but how shall I reform myself . " Some men would thus reform the condition of the people RADICALISM . 67.
... to get rid of his brother . Peter the Great very wisely remarked on his human weakness , " I can reform my people , but how shall I reform myself . " Some men would thus reform the condition of the people RADICALISM . 67.
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... human race for his subject , and stands himself like a sunbeam in a tempestuous cloud , pointing to where the glorious orb will assert his freedom . But a Radical , in his more selfish - grown designs , is a traitor who has won the ...
... human race for his subject , and stands himself like a sunbeam in a tempestuous cloud , pointing to where the glorious orb will assert his freedom . But a Radical , in his more selfish - grown designs , is a traitor who has won the ...
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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.