The Blade and the Ear: Thoughts for a Young ManWm. V. Spencer, 1865 - Всего страниц: 233 |
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... begin by being real in our own will , conscience , and personal energy . Then we may go on through eternity , mining deeper and deeper , and in endless diversities of direction , in a region of inexhaustible realities . The young man is ...
... begin by being real in our own will , conscience , and personal energy . Then we may go on through eternity , mining deeper and deeper , and in endless diversities of direction , in a region of inexhaustible realities . The young man is ...
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... begin . " Who sets about hath half - performed the deed . " We want the spirit of John Adams , who , contemplating the glorious Declaration of Independence , said , “ Sink or swim , live or die , survive or perish , I give my hand and ...
... begin . " Who sets about hath half - performed the deed . " We want the spirit of John Adams , who , contemplating the glorious Declaration of Independence , said , “ Sink or swim , live or die , survive or perish , I give my hand and ...
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... begin to enumerate their claims , to set in order their labors , and recount their sacrifices and privations , he is soon compelled to desist from his task . He is constrained to acknowl- edge , that their love for him is surpassed only ...
... begin to enumerate their claims , to set in order their labors , and recount their sacrifices and privations , he is soon compelled to desist from his task . He is constrained to acknowl- edge , that their love for him is surpassed only ...
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... begin to say within themselves , " if such or such men and principles prevail ? " While some are eager for office , others allow them- selves to become so disgusted with political affairs that they stubbornly decline every position of ...
... begin to say within themselves , " if such or such men and principles prevail ? " While some are eager for office , others allow them- selves to become so disgusted with political affairs that they stubbornly decline every position of ...
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... begin to doubt the soundness of our form of government ; and I almost sigh for a monarchy , or an oligarchy ; " then , through fear this or that odious party will succeed , or , as in the origin of the present rebellion , because it has ...
... begin to doubt the soundness of our form of government ; and I almost sigh for a monarchy , or an oligarchy ; " then , through fear this or that odious party will succeed , or , as in the origin of the present rebellion , because it has ...
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Стр. 139 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Стр. 6 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Стр. 191 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Стр. 142 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Стр. 191 - Before him went the pestilence, And burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting.
Стр. 155 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Стр. 214 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Стр. 159 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Стр. 39 - THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee, Their graves are severed far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the...
Стр. 202 - Of fame; drank early, deeply drank; drank draughts That common millions might have quenched, then died Of thirst, because there was no more to drink.