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... Spirit of Democracy as Connected with a National Literature , The Stranger Lady , The Supremacy of Mind , · Page . 37 391 377 148 276 242 1 57 105 439 53 , 150 , 245 192 300 228 257 65 355 286 209 405 292 198 , 306 , 368 10 , 89 267 161 ...
... Spirit of Democracy as Connected with a National Literature , The Stranger Lady , The Supremacy of Mind , · Page . 37 391 377 148 276 242 1 57 105 439 53 , 150 , 245 192 300 228 257 65 355 286 209 405 292 198 , 306 , 368 10 , 89 267 161 ...
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... spirit of a loftier mould . The Grecian bard tuned his lyre to more than earthly minstrelsy ; the numbers re - echoed along the unexplored wilderness of time ; kindred spirits caught their witchery , and prolonged the soul - thrilling ...
... spirit of a loftier mould . The Grecian bard tuned his lyre to more than earthly minstrelsy ; the numbers re - echoed along the unexplored wilderness of time ; kindred spirits caught their witchery , and prolonged the soul - thrilling ...
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... spirit early taught to dare ; Still let him search for thought with ceaseless toil , Nor ever from the arduous task recoil ; Yet read the classic page with critic eye , And scan its contents with close scrutiny , Its hidden beauties ...
... spirit early taught to dare ; Still let him search for thought with ceaseless toil , Nor ever from the arduous task recoil ; Yet read the classic page with critic eye , And scan its contents with close scrutiny , Its hidden beauties ...
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... spirit - like form sometimes glided among the trees and walks . ' " And now , Ellen , the tale is told - but look ! do you see ? the sun is high in the heavens . We must haste , or they will think us lost , and what is worse , we shall ...
... spirit - like form sometimes glided among the trees and walks . ' " And now , Ellen , the tale is told - but look ! do you see ? the sun is high in the heavens . We must haste , or they will think us lost , and what is worse , we shall ...
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... spirit of enthusiasm throughout the nation , and to attach the people to their political institutions ? At present , they see themselves pro- tected in the making of money , and so long as their desires are con- fined to so narrow a ...
... spirit of enthusiasm throughout the nation , and to attach the people to their political institutions ? At present , they see themselves pro- tected in the making of money , and so long as their desires are con- fined to so narrow a ...
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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...