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... latter must , by thinning the populace , end in total annihilation . We cannot sufficiently admire the plan of our polished continental neighbours , who make every civilian a soldier in case of need , thus having a nation of soldiers ...
... latter must , by thinning the populace , end in total annihilation . We cannot sufficiently admire the plan of our polished continental neighbours , who make every civilian a soldier in case of need , thus having a nation of soldiers ...
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... sufficiently sanguinary . Here was work for politicians rather than for a bigoted priest . When the latter think of fighting they are too apt to quote Scripture , forgetting that what we now can only hope for , RIGHT AND MIGHT . 9.
... sufficiently sanguinary . Here was work for politicians rather than for a bigoted priest . When the latter think of fighting they are too apt to quote Scripture , forgetting that what we now can only hope for , RIGHT AND MIGHT . 9.
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... latter was the dominant passion in the breasts of both kings ; but the monarch of a realm must unite the thoughts of a civilian to the courage of a warrior , or else he is but one individual at the mercy of circumstances . A mutiny in ...
... latter was the dominant passion in the breasts of both kings ; but the monarch of a realm must unite the thoughts of a civilian to the courage of a warrior , or else he is but one individual at the mercy of circumstances . A mutiny in ...
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... latter may vainly vaunt man's courage , let him rather mourn over his sanguinary strength , the force of arms was needed for all these cruel purposes ; but Philip the Third will answer at a stronger tribunal for the victims . of his ...
... latter may vainly vaunt man's courage , let him rather mourn over his sanguinary strength , the force of arms was needed for all these cruel purposes ; but Philip the Third will answer at a stronger tribunal for the victims . of his ...
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... , and man ; but in some high and well - regu- lated minds , simple honour is as powerful as law ; the latter so often misconstrued is , in fact , honour under worldly instead of mental regulations . We have 16 POLITICAL FAME.
... , and man ; but in some high and well - regu- lated minds , simple honour is as powerful as law ; the latter so often misconstrued is , in fact , honour under worldly instead of mental regulations . We have 16 POLITICAL FAME.
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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.