The Canadian Monthly and National Review, 10. köideGraeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart Adam, Stevenson & Company, 1876 |
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... human being slain . " They there concluded not to tell , For fear they'd come to harm , But did come out which happened well , Tho ' causing much alarm . " Then officers went out from town , Intent to find some clue , And through the ...
... human being slain . " They there concluded not to tell , For fear they'd come to harm , But did come out which happened well , Tho ' causing much alarm . " Then officers went out from town , Intent to find some clue , And through the ...
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... human . And in matters of morals and conduct , this is the only method that yields results worth noting . To a certain extent all practical science rests on the same princi- ple . So does all legislation . But it is cer- tain that those ...
... human . And in matters of morals and conduct , this is the only method that yields results worth noting . To a certain extent all practical science rests on the same princi- ple . So does all legislation . But it is cer- tain that those ...
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... human comments , ( and commenta- tors are sometimes mere learned fools ) and go to the word itself , they would find both adequate power and adequate reason . the impossibility of specimens of all the species of animated nature being ...
... human comments , ( and commenta- tors are sometimes mere learned fools ) and go to the word itself , they would find both adequate power and adequate reason . the impossibility of specimens of all the species of animated nature being ...
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... human wisdom , has ever been a thorn in the flesh of the learned world , and all redemptive movements have had to suffer the crucifixion that was to vitalize their cause . Spiritualism , however , in these better days , has had all the ...
... human wisdom , has ever been a thorn in the flesh of the learned world , and all redemptive movements have had to suffer the crucifixion that was to vitalize their cause . Spiritualism , however , in these better days , has had all the ...
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... human race through " prancing and gyrating tables . " But to the philosophic mind nothing should be absurd . The question is not whether it is dignified in a spirit to use pieces of furniture to commu- nicate with his brother spirit in ...
... human race through " prancing and gyrating tables . " But to the philosophic mind nothing should be absurd . The question is not whether it is dignified in a spirit to use pieces of furniture to commu- nicate with his brother spirit in ...
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Page 38 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own...
Page 403 - A Hair perhaps divides the False and True; Yes; and a single Alif were the clue — Could you but find it — to the Treasure-house, And peradventure to THE MASTER too...
Page 402 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie. Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, " Fools ! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Page 402 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Page 402 - Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Page 348 - For from cock-crow he had been travelling, And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he ; And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow-tree.
Page 404 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 404 - Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 307 - Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of GOD are strewn ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 404 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, • •*" •, That Life is ever lord of Death, ^ j^* And Love can never lose its own!