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I write no tales of great and startling crimes , I write no satires on our modern
times , I breathe no names to court the public ear , But by man ' s reason guide
my own career ; The Homerides inheriting their name , Upon one man the many ...
I write no tales of great and startling crimes , I write no satires on our modern
times , I breathe no names to court the public ear , But by man ' s reason guide
my own career ; The Homerides inheriting their name , Upon one man the many ...
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... the sailor ploughs the deep waters in England ' s defence , but the civilian is
equally brave when honour and integrity “ keep the weather of his fate , " and law
— not law in all its petty tyranny , but law restrained by reason — is the bulwark of
...
... the sailor ploughs the deep waters in England ' s defence , but the civilian is
equally brave when honour and integrity “ keep the weather of his fate , " and law
— not law in all its petty tyranny , but law restrained by reason — is the bulwark of
...
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... who at that period held the office of chief ministers , we arrive at Charlemagne ,
who won the proud title of Emperor of the West . Reason governs force , the mind
triumphs over the rudeness of the age , learning in its POLITICAL FAME .
... who at that period held the office of chief ministers , we arrive at Charlemagne ,
who won the proud title of Emperor of the West . Reason governs force , the mind
triumphs over the rudeness of the age , learning in its POLITICAL FAME .
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... they would find that the very things they had craved for were unwholesome and
satiating , and the firm hand which had chastised , as the bold voice which had
refused , would be more beloved when reason enforced 34 POLITICAL FAME .
... they would find that the very things they had craved for were unwholesome and
satiating , and the firm hand which had chastised , as the bold voice which had
refused , would be more beloved when reason enforced 34 POLITICAL FAME .
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had refused , would be more beloved when reason enforced the belief that the
politician · had proved worthy of his post . The difficulty of refusing a request is
often greater than granting it . Parties are very well in their place , and when there
is ...
had refused , would be more beloved when reason enforced the belief that the
politician · had proved worthy of his post . The difficulty of refusing a request is
often greater than granting it . Parties are very well in their place , and when there
is ...
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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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