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Page 51
How easy it is to be a patriot in these modern days ! and although we should be
heartily sorry to behold the necessity for such sacrifices as were perpetrated
centuries ago , yet are we struck with admiration when we think of the patriotic ...
How easy it is to be a patriot in these modern days ! and although we should be
heartily sorry to behold the necessity for such sacrifices as were perpetrated
centuries ago , yet are we struck with admiration when we think of the patriotic ...
Page 52
These and many other Roman heroes may serve as types of the difficulty
attending patriotism , when the world was so little prepared to acknowledge it in
those minor virtues which , in our days , constitute a patriot . " Pro bono publico ”
meant ...
These and many other Roman heroes may serve as types of the difficulty
attending patriotism , when the world was so little prepared to acknowledge it in
those minor virtues which , in our days , constitute a patriot . " Pro bono publico ”
meant ...
Page 53
Even in youth , man may begin his lesson of selfdenial ; for a selfish man cannot
possibly be a patriot , and no young man need be so tied down by custom , tuition
, or the example of others , as to leave into their hands that reigning feeling of ...
Even in youth , man may begin his lesson of selfdenial ; for a selfish man cannot
possibly be a patriot , and no young man need be so tied down by custom , tuition
, or the example of others , as to leave into their hands that reigning feeling of ...
Page 59
There is something sublime in the idea of being the noblest work from the great
Creator ' s hands ; and how many moral virtues the patriot must nurture if he
would always remain an honest man . A political career is a vast field of
temptation ...
There is something sublime in the idea of being the noblest work from the great
Creator ' s hands ; and how many moral virtues the patriot must nurture if he
would always remain an honest man . A political career is a vast field of
temptation ...
Page 74
Greece , thy fame was martyred at the shrine of ambition , and patriots were
overturned by Democrats . Little could the selfcreated patriot , he whom a modern
poet has appropriately called “ the pilgrim bard , " little could he do for Greece .
Greece , thy fame was martyred at the shrine of ambition , and patriots were
overturned by Democrats . Little could the selfcreated patriot , he whom a modern
poet has appropriately called “ the pilgrim bard , " little could he do for Greece .
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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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