The Age: A Colloquial Satire

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Chapman and Hall, 1858 - Всего страниц: 208
 

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Стр. 209 - Price 75 cents. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. 2 vols. $1.50. AUTOBIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES. 1 vol. Price 75 cents. ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL WRITERS, &c.
Стр. 206 - ... us to feel that the best May be forgiven. FESTUS. Pray for the sinful soul; It fleeth, we know not where ; But wherever it be, let us hope ; For God is there. CLARA. Pray for the rich man's soul; Not all be unjust, nor vain ; The wise he consoled ; and he saved The poor from pain.
Стр. 165 - neath the unrestful main, In worth proportioned to its parent pain, Until, in roseate lustre perfect grown, Fate brings it forth, as worthy of a throne ; — So must the poet, martyr of his art, Feed on neglect, and thrive on many a smart ; Death only, may be, gives him equal right, And nations glory in his royal light.
Стр. 18 - To pray for, and to care for, others' life. A Christian soldier's duty is to slay, Wound, harass, slaughter, hack in every way, Those men whose souls he prays for night and day ; With what consistency let Prelates say. He's told to love his enemies; don't scoff; He does so ; and with rifles picks them off. He's told to do to all as he'd be done By, and he therefore blows them from a gun ; To bless his foes ' he hangs them up like fun,' Such inconsistencies will men pretend ; Such blasphemous apostasies...
Стр. 118 - What think you of the general female mind Contrasted with the male of human kind ? Nature hath not to sex or class confined Her noblest gifts ; so every now and then Are women found with minds surpassing men. Kind Nature loves exceptions most because They soften her severely general laws. Women, says Mr. B. in his instructive Lectures, have minds preeminently deductive, Inductive, men ; (I doubt whether the particle's Precisely proper to the several articles) But this I think is clear, that his division...
Стр. 18 - Of all conceits mis-grafted on God's Word, A Christian soldier seems the most absurd. That Word commands us so to act in all things, As not to hurt another e'en in small things ; To flee from anger, hatred, bloodshed, strife ; To pray for, and to care for, others' life. A Christian soldier's duty is to slay, Wound, harass, slaughter, hack in every way, Those men whose souls he prays for night and day ; With what consistency let Prelates say. He's told to love his enemies; don't scoff; He does so...

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