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Page 25
There is cowardice in making self the first consideration , when England is the
mark whereon your eyes should turn . Patiently , diligently , and cou . rageously
follow the path which may not always lead to eminence or popularity , but bear in
...
There is cowardice in making self the first consideration , when England is the
mark whereon your eyes should turn . Patiently , diligently , and cou . rageously
follow the path which may not always lead to eminence or popularity , but bear in
...
Page 49
Go , thoughtless children of wealth ! go , where funeral piles mark the resting -
place of your ancestry . Go , where sculptured effigies , and lonely mounds , rest
side by side . Go — pause - reflect . Will ye — dare ye oppress the Philanthropy ...
Go , thoughtless children of wealth ! go , where funeral piles mark the resting -
place of your ancestry . Go , where sculptured effigies , and lonely mounds , rest
side by side . Go — pause - reflect . Will ye — dare ye oppress the Philanthropy ...
Page 57
... cannot recall one circumstance in which words can possibly triumph over
deeds . Go forth and learn , Young England , ere ye attempt to teach ; learn that
your name should not signify a party , but be the distinctive mark YOUNG
ENGLAND .
... cannot recall one circumstance in which words can possibly triumph over
deeds . Go forth and learn , Young England , ere ye attempt to teach ; learn that
your name should not signify a party , but be the distinctive mark YOUNG
ENGLAND .
Page 73
Greece and the seven - hilled kingdom owe their fall to the increasing selfishness
of those who put on the deceptive mark of philanthropy . " Oh , thou fair Greece !
by Turkish hands profaned , By Britons plunder ' d , and by Moslems chain ' d !
Greece and the seven - hilled kingdom owe their fall to the increasing selfishness
of those who put on the deceptive mark of philanthropy . " Oh , thou fair Greece !
by Turkish hands profaned , By Britons plunder ' d , and by Moslems chain ' d !
Page 75
... others look upon him merely as the blind which the people use to give free vent
to their rebellious disposition . And there is something melancholy when we find
men of high ability falling to such a mark . Thus has he reasoned at first ; “ I am ...
... others look upon him merely as the blind which the people use to give free vent
to their rebellious disposition . And there is something melancholy when we find
men of high ability falling to such a mark . Thus has he reasoned at first ; “ I am ...
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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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