The Ladies' Repository, Volume 44A. Tompkins, 1870 |
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... side , po- erty and art , science and law , sink into com- parative insignificance . " Again ; " To my mind the great epochs in the world's history are marked not by the foundation or the de- struction of empires , by the migration of ...
... side , po- erty and art , science and law , sink into com- parative insignificance . " Again ; " To my mind the great epochs in the world's history are marked not by the foundation or the de- struction of empires , by the migration of ...
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... side , and are continually fed by clear , pure water from springs in the mountains . I passed into very few streets where the channels were not rushing along like a tiny rivulet , singing the same little bubbling songs . The sidewalks ...
... side , and are continually fed by clear , pure water from springs in the mountains . I passed into very few streets where the channels were not rushing along like a tiny rivulet , singing the same little bubbling songs . The sidewalks ...
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... side . Her firm refusal was wholly unexpected , but he esteemed her the more for it when she gave her reason , so gently yet so firmly , and he left that peaceful retreat , a wiser yet a sadder man . There were some treasures wholly ...
... side . Her firm refusal was wholly unexpected , but he esteemed her the more for it when she gave her reason , so gently yet so firmly , and he left that peaceful retreat , a wiser yet a sadder man . There were some treasures wholly ...
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... side . But in the holy hush of the evening , when the day's cares and duties were all past , and she read her little Bible and bowed in prayer , then his name dwelt lovingly upon her lips , and was borne upward to the home of the angels ...
... side . But in the holy hush of the evening , when the day's cares and duties were all past , and she read her little Bible and bowed in prayer , then his name dwelt lovingly upon her lips , and was borne upward to the home of the angels ...
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... side pocket in the carriage a large , linen bound portfolio , began to draw ; now quickly glancing at the landscape ... sides things are observed from new points of view . The young lady grew more and more earnest in her drawing ...
... side pocket in the carriage a large , linen bound portfolio , began to draw ; now quickly glancing at the landscape ... sides things are observed from new points of view . The young lady grew more and more earnest in her drawing ...
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Page 224 - I do charge you before the Lord God and his holy angels, that you be lowly, diligent, and tender, fearing God, loving the people, and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it ; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor.
Page 437 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 307 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 227 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 227 - In the days of these kings, saith the prophet Daniel (ii. 44), the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed...
Page 437 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Page 165 - ... perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand.
Page 234 - ... the awful power of insight " ; but his mood was always cheerful and equal, and his mind peculiarly healthful, and the airy splendor of his wit and humor was the light of his home. He saw too far to be despondent, though his vivid sympathies and shaping imagination often made him sad in behalf of others. He also perceived morbidness, wherever it existed, instantly, as if by the illumination of his own steady cheer ; and he had the plastic power of putting himself into each person's situation,...
Page 226 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 164 - Walking by the seaside in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height perhaps of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water.