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... religion , its humanizing influence upon mankind were totally wanting ; and of all her sons , all her abettors , all her admirers , not one proved more humane than she , whose plots and horrid deeds have de- scended to posterity , as a ...
... religion , its humanizing influence upon mankind were totally wanting ; and of all her sons , all her abettors , all her admirers , not one proved more humane than she , whose plots and horrid deeds have de- scended to posterity , as a ...
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... religion , truth , and gentle- ness . The dreadful wars she falsely ascribed to religious motives showed that she forgot that He , for whose cause she pretended to fight , is the Prince of Peace , not of War . That policy which she ...
... religion , truth , and gentle- ness . The dreadful wars she falsely ascribed to religious motives showed that she forgot that He , for whose cause she pretended to fight , is the Prince of Peace , not of War . That policy which she ...
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... religion , which casts the halo of its bounty around the nation she loves : these attributes , Queen Victoria , have made thee beloved , whilst birthright made thee the Queen . Let , then , those who please , prate of 20 POLITICAL FAME .
... religion , which casts the halo of its bounty around the nation she loves : these attributes , Queen Victoria , have made thee beloved , whilst birthright made thee the Queen . Let , then , those who please , prate of 20 POLITICAL FAME .
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... 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 front . " Readers , the ...
... 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 front . " Readers , the ...
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... of the man who wishes to be the master of a factory be most scrupulously investigated . Let it be as much a task of merit to obtain this post as any under government . government . Let the religious prin- 46 POLITICAL FAME .
... of the man who wishes to be the master of a factory be most scrupulously investigated . Let it be as much a task of merit to obtain this post as any under government . government . Let the religious prin- 46 POLITICAL FAME .
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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.