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... character , and the many high and ennobling thoughts its contemplation so obviously tends to in- spire , we cannot ponder too often or deeply upon this wonderful masterpiece of nature's workmanship : we cannot look upon it with a regard ...
... character , and the many high and ennobling thoughts its contemplation so obviously tends to in- spire , we cannot ponder too often or deeply upon this wonderful masterpiece of nature's workmanship : we cannot look upon it with a regard ...
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... character except by them , we might , by endeavoring to enter in this one mighty concep- tion , picture a being as superior in mind , and elevated in senti- ment . We would have marked him with a vigor and intensity of thought , a depth ...
... character except by them , we might , by endeavoring to enter in this one mighty concep- tion , picture a being as superior in mind , and elevated in senti- ment . We would have marked him with a vigor and intensity of thought , a depth ...
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... character . It is an emotion , too , which , in touching some of the deep seated chords of human sympathy and human ambition , sends a thrill through the soul- that awakes its dormant energies to life and action . How many intellects of ...
... character . It is an emotion , too , which , in touching some of the deep seated chords of human sympathy and human ambition , sends a thrill through the soul- that awakes its dormant energies to life and action . How many intellects of ...
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... is known from the middle character , to place it long anterior to the deluge . Certainly it is very ancient , though un- doubtedly since Adam . gladness pervaded each heart . The old did not possess 14 MIXUM GATHERUM .
... is known from the middle character , to place it long anterior to the deluge . Certainly it is very ancient , though un- doubtedly since Adam . gladness pervaded each heart . The old did not possess 14 MIXUM GATHERUM .
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... character by stealth . But transient is the echo of such praise , And withers soon their wreath of pilfered lays . Let then the youth be reared with strictest care , Be his young spirit early taught to dare ; Still let him search for ...
... character by stealth . But transient is the echo of such praise , And withers soon their wreath of pilfered lays . Let then the youth be reared with strictest care , Be his young spirit early taught to dare ; Still let him search for ...
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Page 223 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 345 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Page 241 - Thanks for that lesson — it will teach To after- warriors more Than high Philosophy can preach, And vainly preached before. That spell upon the minds of men Breaks never to unite again, That led them to adore Those Paged things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.
Page 367 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it.
Page 49 - Alas, sir ! a commonwealth ought to be but as one huge christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body...
Page 482 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 2 - An Inquiry respecting the Self-determining Power of the Will; or Contingent Volition. By Jeremiah Day, President of Yale College. New Haven : Herrick & Noyes. 1838.
Page 472 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Page 104 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 476 - Or what they deal with ! — Man perchance may bind The flower his step hath bruised ; or light anew The torch he quenches ; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew — But for the soul ! — oh ! tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there...