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... talents , must be accounted for at a high and impartial tribunal . A melancholy feeling sheds itself over the mind when retrospecting Catherine's gency . re- She stood a queen in power , a queen in will , in appearance , amidst her ...
... talents , must be accounted for at a high and impartial tribunal . A melancholy feeling sheds itself over the mind when retrospecting Catherine's gency . re- She stood a queen in power , a queen in will , in appearance , amidst her ...
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... a portion ; and amidst the moderate relaxation which all studious minds require he can , even in his pleasures , begin his lesson of patriotism by encouraging native talent . Conscience and honour 5 $ YOUNG ENGLAND . 53.
... a portion ; and amidst the moderate relaxation which all studious minds require he can , even in his pleasures , begin his lesson of patriotism by encouraging native talent . Conscience and honour 5 $ YOUNG ENGLAND . 53.
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Rose Ellen Temple. of patriotism by encouraging native talent . Conscience and honour , in youth , are the protectors to guide their possessor safely to manhood and it is in youth that bad advice , bad example , and native indolence ...
Rose Ellen Temple. of patriotism by encouraging native talent . Conscience and honour , in youth , are the protectors to guide their possessor safely to manhood and it is in youth that bad advice , bad example , and native indolence ...
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... talents misused . Youth is , indeed , the time when the soul and body are in their primeval stage ; the weight of care has not borne away a single energy , the earth seems a vast stage of delight , ambition in its infancy has virtue for ...
... talents misused . Youth is , indeed , the time when the soul and body are in their primeval stage ; the weight of care has not borne away a single energy , the earth seems a vast stage of delight , ambition in its infancy has virtue for ...
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... talent , if the influential part of mankind shut themselves up in their pride , after attaining the degree of power they coveted ? Those who toil not for the laurels of fame , will be ready to say that talent can stand on the ground of ...
... talent , if the influential part of mankind shut themselves up in their pride , after attaining the degree of power they coveted ? Those who toil not for the laurels of fame , will be ready to say that talent can stand on the ground of ...
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abilities absolute monarchy ambition amidst barbarous behold beloved bounty brave breast brother members Charlemagne Charles Chartism cians civil civilian conscience contemporary courage craving Crusade Dauphin death duty English equal example eyes fact factory feeling fight forget France gentle glorious glory hand happiness heart holy honour Hugh Capet indolence justice Knights Templars lesson look Lords Louis man's Medici member of Parliament mind miseries monarch Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte nation never noble Parliamentary walls party patriot peace pens Peter the Hermit Pharamond philanthropy Philip Augustus Philip the Third POLITICAL FAME poor popular praise Protector purest Queen Victoria Radical reign religion rich sacred Salic law Sicilian Vespers soul Sovereign spirit talent taught thee thou thread of French triumph truest truth turn tyranny untaught vast victory virtue voice warrior weapon of discontent Whig whilst Young England young politician
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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.