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Page 11
... human race was divided into nations and tongues , each following its peculiar destiny . It refers to the principle of expansion which history proves to have been characteristic of Japheth . It treats of the move- ments of the nations ...
... human race was divided into nations and tongues , each following its peculiar destiny . It refers to the principle of expansion which history proves to have been characteristic of Japheth . It treats of the move- ments of the nations ...
Page 12
... human brotherhood , embracing all nations and all quarters of the earth . And , therefore , all events , and even all obstructions , all progress , and all rest , must subserve the working of this power , whether the great actors are ...
... human brotherhood , embracing all nations and all quarters of the earth . And , therefore , all events , and even all obstructions , all progress , and all rest , must subserve the working of this power , whether the great actors are ...
Page 13
... human form and its beauty he sets forth in his deities . Human thought was truth , in his estimation , and civil liberty and social ties the source and end of morality . Religion was , indeed , a common possession ; but aristocratic ...
... human form and its beauty he sets forth in his deities . Human thought was truth , in his estimation , and civil liberty and social ties the source and end of morality . Religion was , indeed , a common possession ; but aristocratic ...
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... human emotion and experience . No such man expects his brother to come knocking at his door for sympathy , like a beggar for pence . Sorrow is of a womanly , retiring nature ; it will not seek , but must be sought - it is modest as a ...
... human emotion and experience . No such man expects his brother to come knocking at his door for sympathy , like a beggar for pence . Sorrow is of a womanly , retiring nature ; it will not seek , but must be sought - it is modest as a ...
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... humanity , making it more human , and being more human , more generous , and self - sacrificing . From the ' Resolute ' to the Geographical Society , and from the Geogra- phical Society to Dr. Livingston , are now natural enough steps ...
... humanity , making it more human , and being more human , more generous , and self - sacrificing . From the ' Resolute ' to the Geographical Society , and from the Geogra- phical Society to Dr. Livingston , are now natural enough steps ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.