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... idea runs through literatures where the alliteration is lost ; so that it is no answer to say that king suggests kobbler as peer does peasant . Let us take up with Elia again : ' Of all sound of bells ( bells , the music nighest ...
... idea runs through literatures where the alliteration is lost ; so that it is no answer to say that king suggests kobbler as peer does peasant . Let us take up with Elia again : ' Of all sound of bells ( bells , the music nighest ...
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... idea of the age of Augustus , but was never an inherent religious thought . Moreover , after it had been uttered , it failed to produce the heroism which such a prediction would have called forth in a nation that felt as sure of its ...
... idea of the age of Augustus , but was never an inherent religious thought . Moreover , after it had been uttered , it failed to produce the heroism which such a prediction would have called forth in a nation that felt as sure of its ...
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... idea that he must write some letters , and there being a crowd of faces , led us here . Yet , who could he have to write to , if not to me ? Oh , what weary journeys and despairing watches ! Sometimes beside the doors of theatres , but ...
... idea that he must write some letters , and there being a crowd of faces , led us here . Yet , who could he have to write to , if not to me ? Oh , what weary journeys and despairing watches ! Sometimes beside the doors of theatres , but ...
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... idea of teaching slaves , of instructing black Africans , was too ridiculous and too incendiary to be entertained for a moment . Mr. Post could not , however , rid himself of the conscientious conviction that had tenaciously fastened ...
... idea of teaching slaves , of instructing black Africans , was too ridiculous and too incendiary to be entertained for a moment . Mr. Post could not , however , rid himself of the conscientious conviction that had tenaciously fastened ...
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... idea that he can break the chains which bind him , sometimes makes the trial mainly in his own power , and with no thought of God , and fails ; the Calvinist , thinking that the chain is infrangible , save by direct Divine influence ...
... idea that he can break the chains which bind him , sometimes makes the trial mainly in his own power , and with no thought of God , and fails ; the Calvinist , thinking that the chain is infrangible , save by direct Divine influence ...
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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.