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... hope to see them completely refuted : but if they be true , the subject is so important to human happiness , that it is impossible that they should not , in the fulness of time , be more known and generally circulated , whether any ...
... hope to see them completely refuted : but if they be true , the subject is so important to human happiness , that it is impossible that they should not , in the fulness of time , be more known and generally circulated , whether any ...
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... hope our fragmental and laconic despatches will not , like the electric telegraph , take off the edge without satisfying curiosity . True eloquence is nothing more than a serious and hearty love of truth . The author aspires to a praise ...
... hope our fragmental and laconic despatches will not , like the electric telegraph , take off the edge without satisfying curiosity . True eloquence is nothing more than a serious and hearty love of truth . The author aspires to a praise ...
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... hope , That pledge of immortality , that is The link of sacred union between Immortal and an eternal GOD ! Oh thou undefinable essence ! thron'd In a mysterious glory of proud things , Sparkling about thee like the fiery rays Of some ...
... hope , That pledge of immortality , that is The link of sacred union between Immortal and an eternal GOD ! Oh thou undefinable essence ! thron'd In a mysterious glory of proud things , Sparkling about thee like the fiery rays Of some ...
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... hope too much . If Mr. Rarey , the horse - tamer , can subjugate the fiercest brute , first , by ascertaining the general character- istics of the species , and then by some kindly secret which wins its confidence and love ; surely the ...
... hope too much . If Mr. Rarey , the horse - tamer , can subjugate the fiercest brute , first , by ascertaining the general character- istics of the species , and then by some kindly secret which wins its confidence and love ; surely the ...
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... hope of becoming rich . If the Hindoo system of caste prevailed among us -if the humble man , however gifted , could never expect to emerge from his obscurity - he might justly complain of his lot . But in no other country is the road ...
... hope of becoming rich . If the Hindoo system of caste prevailed among us -if the humble man , however gifted , could never expect to emerge from his obscurity - he might justly complain of his lot . But in no other country is the road ...
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Page 22 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 410 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 195 - And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Page 55 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 401 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 28 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 221 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 360 - Gray ! And warm thy old heart with a glass." "Nay, but credit I've none, And my money's all gone ; Then say how may that come to pass ? "Well-a-day !" " Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer Gray ! And knock at the jolly priest's door.
Page 120 - And prais'd be rashness for it. —Let us know. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.
Page 124 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ...