The Yale Literary Magazine, 4. köideYale Literary Society, 1839 |
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... desire of amassing know- ledge - yet without it , wisdom , howsoever great , would bring with it nothing of pure or lasting enjoyment . It is not ambition - yet the attainment of power would be but a useless toil , did not this ...
... desire of amassing know- ledge - yet without it , wisdom , howsoever great , would bring with it nothing of pure or lasting enjoyment . It is not ambition - yet the attainment of power would be but a useless toil , did not this ...
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... desire for power , kindled and blazing in the bosoms of those whom talent or fortune has raised above their fellow men , has ever convulsed society , has roused nations from the sleep of ages , has breathed life into the arts and ...
... desire for power , kindled and blazing in the bosoms of those whom talent or fortune has raised above their fellow men , has ever convulsed society , has roused nations from the sleep of ages , has breathed life into the arts and ...
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... desire is the germ of capability ; that ardent hopes and aspiring aims can never , or rarely exist without the power to realize the former , and secure the latter . This single convic- tion will tend to add an energy to purpose , to ...
... desire is the germ of capability ; that ardent hopes and aspiring aims can never , or rarely exist without the power to realize the former , and secure the latter . This single convic- tion will tend to add an energy to purpose , to ...
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... desire . It longs to be alone , to hold converse with itself , to lose every care in the considera- tion of its own noble destiny ; and whether the world is bright or dark , whether the sun shines or the tempest lowers , -it stands amid ...
... desire . It longs to be alone , to hold converse with itself , to lose every care in the considera- tion of its own noble destiny ; and whether the world is bright or dark , whether the sun shines or the tempest lowers , -it stands amid ...
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... desires or aspirations beyond the smoke of the paternal chimney . But a catastrophe befell him . He became smitten of the tender passion , and his addresses being rejected , he could not endure to dwell in the land of his Dulcinea ...
... desires or aspirations beyond the smoke of the paternal chimney . But a catastrophe befell him . He became smitten of the tender passion , and his addresses being rejected , he could not endure to dwell in the land of his Dulcinea ...
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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...