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... and paid a great many French compliments to our Queen , but he has no
inclination to abolish the Salic law , though he may think a queen a pretty
ornament upon a British throne . first timorous shape breaks upon the nation ,
learned men.
... and paid a great many French compliments to our Queen , but he has no
inclination to abolish the Salic law , though he may think a queen a pretty
ornament upon a British throne . first timorous shape breaks upon the nation ,
learned men.
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first timorous shape breaks upon the nation , learned men visit the capital , and
France becomes the stage for rising genius - genius in its pure infancy , ere
rivalry and ambition rendered it a difficult fight , the prize of which in our day is too
often ...
first timorous shape breaks upon the nation , learned men visit the capital , and
France becomes the stage for rising genius - genius in its pure infancy , ere
rivalry and ambition rendered it a difficult fight , the prize of which in our day is too
often ...
Page 29
Discontent is , in fact , engendered by education ; for behold the contented smile
_ the helpless happiness of infancy and young days in all ranks of life . Behold
those lovely hours of youth , ere lips have learned sighing , and eyes have shed
a ...
Discontent is , in fact , engendered by education ; for behold the contented smile
_ the helpless happiness of infancy and young days in all ranks of life . Behold
those lovely hours of youth , ere lips have learned sighing , and eyes have shed
a ...
Page 43
would probably be answered , " A factory is a public place where industrious
hands are employed in honest toil , where children are kept from idleness and
bad example ; where young men and women have learned a useful trade , and
can ...
would probably be answered , " A factory is a public place where industrious
hands are employed in honest toil , where children are kept from idleness and
bad example ; where young men and women have learned a useful trade , and
can ...
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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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