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... monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL FAME .
... monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL FAME .
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... monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL FAME .
... monarch ought never to count more upon the courage of his army than the sagacity of his politicians . Oh ! then , Politicians , look upon your country as a vast inheritance committed to your charge , 24 POLITICAL FAME .
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... suffering child of want reads his first lesson of discontent , the labourer sues for more than he had otherwise wished for , the poor look upon the rich as a vast assembly of tyrants , and curse them in their hearts , 28 POLITICAL FAME .
... suffering child of want reads his first lesson of discontent , the labourer sues for more than he had otherwise wished for , the poor look upon the rich as a vast assembly of tyrants , and curse them in their hearts , 28 POLITICAL FAME .
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... look upon us all as brethren - brethren in life , equals in death , heirs to one vast inheritance - the tomb . Runners to one goal , that bourne where distinction may be marked outwardly by monuments , but is levelled inwardly by the ...
... look upon us all as brethren - brethren in life , equals in death , heirs to one vast inheritance - the tomb . Runners to one goal , that bourne where distinction may be marked outwardly by monuments , but is levelled inwardly by the ...
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... look back in years to come , and turn page by page , leaf by leaf , from the book of the past . In old age he dreams that he stands again , for the first time , within Parliamentary walls -he was dreaming then - now he is wide awake ...
... look back in years to come , and turn page by page , leaf by leaf , from the book of the past . In old age he dreams that he stands again , for the first time , within Parliamentary walls -he was dreaming then - now he is wide awake ...
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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.