William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory

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Roberts Bros., 1880 - 259 стор.
The 9 plates in this volume are made up of "1 collotype from a painting, 4 line from art, 4 artotypes from photographs. J. A. Williams, Newport, R.I., photographer and printer. Williams, one of the local photographers to sign up with the Artotype Co., produced almost no artotypes. This is the only book to have prints by him." -- Hanson Collection Catalog, p. 64.

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Сторінка 24 - He is made one with nature; there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird: He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above. He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear His part, while the one...
Сторінка 240 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Сторінка 96 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Сторінка 22 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Сторінка 45 - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Сторінка 147 - I could see that he grew bolder and stronger on the subject, while I felt that I grew wiser and more just. At first I thought him timid, and even slightly timeserving ; but I soon discovered that I formed this estimate from ignorance of his character. I learned that it was justice to all, not popularity for himself, which made EELATIONS TO ABOLITIONISTS. 155 him so cautious. He constantly grew upon my respect, until I came to regard him as the wisest, as well as the gentlest, apostle of humanity.
Сторінка 216 - The best style is not that which puts the reader most easily and in the shortest time in possession of a writer's naked thoughts; but that which is the truest image of a great intellect, which conveys fully and carries farthest into other souls the conceptions and feelings of a profound and lofty spirit.
Сторінка 67 - Brookline hills. The place and the hour were always sacred in his memory, and he frequently referred to them with grateful awe. It seemed to him, that he then passed through a new spiritual birth, and entered upon the day of eternal peace and joy.
Сторінка 44 - From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.
Сторінка 71 - ... virtues than I left behind me. There is one single trait which attaches me to the people I live with more than all the virtues of New England, — they love money less than we do; they are more disinterested; their patriotism is not tied to their purse-strings. Could I only take from the Virginians their sensuality and their slaves, I should think them the greatest people in the world. As it is, with a few great virtues, they have innumerable vices.

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