About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... too excellent , his capacities too large , for so mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man if this were all he were made for ! " Pursuing this argument further , the learned author whose words 8 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
... too excellent , his capacities too large , for so mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man if this were all he were made for ! " Pursuing this argument further , the learned author whose words 8 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
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... mean . So even a true regard for our enjoyment and for our own peace will make us enlarge our views and our sympathies . As we are all born with many facul- ties , so the proper cultivation of those faculties will lead us away from the ...
... mean . So even a true regard for our enjoyment and for our own peace will make us enlarge our views and our sympathies . As we are all born with many facul- ties , so the proper cultivation of those faculties will lead us away from the ...
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... means our young men should add the indifference of a Choctaw Indian to the supreme selfishness taught by modern civilization . Deference for age , continuance in service , patience , and endurance , seem too to be dying out . We are ...
... means our young men should add the indifference of a Choctaw Indian to the supreme selfishness taught by modern civilization . Deference for age , continuance in service , patience , and endurance , seem too to be dying out . We are ...
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... mean ; unfinished , crude ; untaught , yet learned ; great for others , poor for themselves ; good as tools , bad as masters ; sublime in character , yet in effect dangerous , and too often weak and despicable . It may here be as well ...
... mean ; unfinished , crude ; untaught , yet learned ; great for others , poor for themselves ; good as tools , bad as masters ; sublime in character , yet in effect dangerous , and too often weak and despicable . It may here be as well ...
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... means insufficient for the Protestant . A few potatoes and a shed of turf is all that Luther has left for the Romanist ; and when the latter gets these , he instantly begins upon the great Irish manufacture of children . But a ...
... means insufficient for the Protestant . A few potatoes and a shed of turf is all that Luther has left for the Romanist ; and when the latter gets these , he instantly begins upon the great Irish manufacture of children . But a ...
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Сторінка 299 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Сторінка 240 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Сторінка 5 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Сторінка 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Сторінка 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Сторінка 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Сторінка 252 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Сторінка 2 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar...
Сторінка 309 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA. Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA. George Hicks. R. Redgrave, RA, C.
Сторінка 268 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.