The Villa on the Rhine, Volume 2

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Leypoldt & Holt, 1869 - 990 pages
 

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Page 946 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 629 - Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. To earth, this weary earth, ye bring us, To guilt ye let us heedless go, Then leave repentance fierce to wring us: A moment's guilt, an age of woe!
Page 821 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Page 814 - ... the best it allowed me but a limited amount of energy, so that doubtless there was much nervous depression at the foundation of the spiritual struggles which this chapter is forced to record. However, it could not have been all due to my health, for as my wise little notebook sententiously remarked, "In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
Page 706 - ... pray beside him, never leaving him night or day until the time comes to lay him in the grave, which it has been one of his duties to dig for himself. You reflect over the simple, unpretentious, dreary end of a man who has spent the best years of his life in the extremes of...
Page 609 - It isn't every day one can hear such a minister," said our Lord. "That depends upon what you expect," said St. Peter, staring straight ahead. Our Lord noticed well enough that St. Peter paid no more attention to Him than if he had been a speck of dust in the road, for St.
Page 973 - And l say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened unto you.
Page 963 - There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others ; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

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