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... 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 courage of those ...
... 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 courage of those ...
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... patriot . " Pro bono publico " meant not fine - sound- ing speeches , but fine and dauntless actions . r For what is glory but the blaze of fame ? " Milton has written , but the ancient Romans earned not renown and glory at such a price ...
... patriot . " Pro bono publico " meant not fine - sound- ing speeches , but fine and dauntless actions . r For what is glory but the blaze of fame ? " Milton has written , but the ancient Romans earned not renown and glory at such a price ...
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... 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 the ambition of good , which none but himself can so effectually ripen to maturity ...
... 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 the ambition of good , which none but himself can so effectually ripen to maturity ...
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... British Isle feel himself a patriot . The wide world of Fame is spread before your anxious gaze , and no matter in what profession ye seek for its attainment , honour is the only sure road towards the goal ; the 58 POLITICAL FAME .
... British Isle feel himself a patriot . The wide world of Fame is spread before your anxious gaze , and no matter in what profession ye seek for its attainment , honour is the only sure road towards the goal ; the 58 POLITICAL FAME .
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... patriot must nurture if he would always remain an honest man . A political career is a vast field of temp- tation , ambition is constantly in a vortex of excitement ; tempting voices , like waters rush- ing on the plains , are ...
... patriot must nurture if he would always remain an honest man . A political career is a vast field of temp- tation , ambition is constantly in a vortex of excitement ; tempting voices , like waters rush- ing on the plains , are ...
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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.