The Blade and the Ear: Thoughts for a Young ManWm. V. Spencer, 1865 - Всего страниц: 233 |
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... seek and reach this or that position ; nor even to grow in intellect , while the heart and soul are morally dwarfed . True manliness is power to say to the solicitations of evil , come they in what form they may , " Get thee behind me ...
... seek and reach this or that position ; nor even to grow in intellect , while the heart and soul are morally dwarfed . True manliness is power to say to the solicitations of evil , come they in what form they may , " Get thee behind me ...
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... seek an avocation , her bene- dictions go with him ; and her supplication is , that amid all perils and temptations he may be saved . Should he yield to vice , he is still her son ; he may forget her , but she will not , she cannot ...
... seek an avocation , her bene- dictions go with him ; and her supplication is , that amid all perils and temptations he may be saved . Should he yield to vice , he is still her son ; he may forget her , but she will not , she cannot ...
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... seeking , or already in , office and power . How alien has this temper been , as exhibited , both among electors and elected , to the principles of the gospel ! Why , what is the spirit of Christianity , as it bears on national ...
... seeking , or already in , office and power . How alien has this temper been , as exhibited , both among electors and elected , to the principles of the gospel ! Why , what is the spirit of Christianity , as it bears on national ...
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... seek elevation only to do greater good to his country ; or rather , he would not seek it at all ; he would be sought , urged on by others , and borne into office by a genuine acclamation . Our people have only to divest them- selves of ...
... seek elevation only to do greater good to his country ; or rather , he would not seek it at all ; he would be sought , urged on by others , and borne into office by a genuine acclamation . Our people have only to divest them- selves of ...
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... seeking the office of the presidency , and prostituting honor and principle to gain it , modestly declined the position ; and who declined a reëlection , and consented to it only after long and earnest entreat- ies ? Did that man ...
... seeking the office of the presidency , and prostituting honor and principle to gain it , modestly declined the position ; and who declined a reëlection , and consented to it only after long and earnest entreat- ies ? Did that man ...
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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.