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... purest prin- ciple upon which to found their politics . A clever pen may be as despotic as a clever orator ; Aristotle's favorite virtue prudence is never more essential than in political writings . Let every politician remember , that ...
... purest prin- ciple upon which to found their politics . A clever pen may be as despotic as a clever orator ; Aristotle's favorite virtue prudence is never more essential than in political writings . Let every politician remember , that ...
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... , the lawyer , the physician , the tradesman , the author , and soldier . Take heed , Young England , thy collegiate days , the freshest , the purest in the annals of thy life , may also be the least useful YOUNG ENGLAND . 55.
... , the lawyer , the physician , the tradesman , the author , and soldier . Take heed , Young England , thy collegiate days , the freshest , the purest in the annals of thy life , may also be the least useful YOUNG ENGLAND . 55.
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... 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 Heaven's are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in , and hath a fearful ...
... 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 Heaven's are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in , and hath a fearful ...
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... purest form borders so closely on philan- thropy , that we are tempted to give it a place in our volume . When we say Radicalism in its purest form , we mean ere it has arrived to Chartism , Republicanism , or Democratical stage of any ...
... purest form borders so closely on philan- thropy , that we are tempted to give it a place in our volume . When we say Radicalism in its purest form , we mean ere it has arrived to Chartism , Republicanism , or Democratical stage of any ...
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... purest form of Radicalism is philanthropy , and philanthropy is patriotism . And we will go further ; we will contend , that our best - hearted politicians have a germ of the three within them - Tory , in respect for their sovereign and ...
... purest form of Radicalism is philanthropy , and philanthropy is patriotism . And we will go further ; we will contend , that our best - hearted politicians have a germ of the three within them - Tory , in respect for their sovereign and ...
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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.