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... human body , which would do honor to to his bed . At the age of twenty , being perfectly many seeing artists . He also carved , in great per- recovered , he began to make musical instruments , fection , heads or busts of living persons ...
... human body , which would do honor to to his bed . At the age of twenty , being perfectly many seeing artists . He also carved , in great per- recovered , he began to make musical instruments , fection , heads or busts of living persons ...
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... human happiness , and deserves the gratitude of mankind . December , 1842 . WOMAN . ( Written for an Album . ) When ... humanity ? If England were to proclaim that certain property should be confiscated , if any at- tempt be made to ...
... human happiness , and deserves the gratitude of mankind . December , 1842 . WOMAN . ( Written for an Album . ) When ... humanity ? If England were to proclaim that certain property should be confiscated , if any at- tempt be made to ...
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... human cities , torture . " and I dropt one tear to the memory of a being whose love was so enduring , and whose soul was so tender and impassioned . Poor Heloisa ! ill fated and ill treated woman ! Is there a heart , so callous , that ...
... human cities , torture . " and I dropt one tear to the memory of a being whose love was so enduring , and whose soul was so tender and impassioned . Poor Heloisa ! ill fated and ill treated woman ! Is there a heart , so callous , that ...
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... human na- ture ? Change our nature , and you change our desires , and then we may admit that what all men now regard as a great evil , may prove a rich foun- tain of happiness . But let us descend to particulars . What if a man , some ...
... human na- ture ? Change our nature , and you change our desires , and then we may admit that what all men now regard as a great evil , may prove a rich foun- tain of happiness . But let us descend to particulars . What if a man , some ...
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... human trine , or those of the Stoics and Epicurians be tribunes to that which is reserved alike for judges correct , it is foreign to our purpose to inquire . and the judged . He meets with no respect from But supposing it to be so ; if ...
... human trine , or those of the Stoics and Epicurians be tribunes to that which is reserved alike for judges correct , it is foreign to our purpose to inquire . and the judged . He meets with no respect from But supposing it to be so ; if ...
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Page 138 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 364 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 386 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 50 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 138 - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Page 363 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Page 159 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Page 196 - By the sweet power of music : therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods, Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 386 - To the great Variety of Readers. — From the most able to him that can but spell ; — there you are number'd. We had rather you were weighd...
Page 363 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.