Gatherings from many authors, by P.S. SparlingPhilip Smith Sparling 1854 |
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... imagine any difference between being honourable and being thought so . I do not mean to say that the desire of approbation is not an estimable , or , I would rather say , a useful feeling - if not quite a virtue , it is the guarantee of ...
... imagine any difference between being honourable and being thought so . I do not mean to say that the desire of approbation is not an estimable , or , I would rather say , a useful feeling - if not quite a virtue , it is the guarantee of ...
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... imagine , that the journals of the present day are something more than mere vehicles of news and gossip ; and that as the opinions which they express on subjects of public discussion and interest are generally considered to be formed ...
... imagine , that the journals of the present day are something more than mere vehicles of news and gossip ; and that as the opinions which they express on subjects of public discussion and interest are generally considered to be formed ...
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... Imagine a large building - an immense building of five stories high , well lighted , well warmed , clean , healthy , and ventilated , filled on a Sunday with six separate schools of 500 each , all trained up in the doctrines and ...
... Imagine a large building - an immense building of five stories high , well lighted , well warmed , clean , healthy , and ventilated , filled on a Sunday with six separate schools of 500 each , all trained up in the doctrines and ...
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Philip Smith Sparling. And then imagine six of these schools all forming part of one great school of 3,000 children , all sing- ing one after another this appeal to British benevo- lence and to British piety ! I know of nothing in the ...
Philip Smith Sparling. And then imagine six of these schools all forming part of one great school of 3,000 children , all sing- ing one after another this appeal to British benevo- lence and to British piety ! I know of nothing in the ...
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Page 84 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 92 - Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Page 72 - From 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.
Page 85 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 92 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free.
Page 86 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Page 98 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 98 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 5 - Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; and transport the sailor and the traveller thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home!