The Blade and the Ear: Thoughts for a Young ManWm. V. Spencer, 1865 - Всего страниц: 233 |
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... truth ! But , alas , all along he must advance through an avenue of tempters and demons , all prompt to touch him , and draw away that divine , electric element , with which he is charged . " Another characteristic of our young men is ...
... truth ! But , alas , all along he must advance through an avenue of tempters and demons , all prompt to touch him , and draw away that divine , electric element , with which he is charged . " Another characteristic of our young men is ...
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... truth is , they often appear diffi- cult because we have not courage to undertake them . The old are sometimes fearful and over - cautious ; and those in middle life sometimes hesitate and delay , till the opportunity for success is ...
... truth is , they often appear diffi- cult because we have not courage to undertake them . The old are sometimes fearful and over - cautious ; and those in middle life sometimes hesitate and delay , till the opportunity for success is ...
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... truth . They are not as yet petrified by prejudice . When Harvey broached his theory of the circulation of the blood , it met with violent opposition ; and no one , it is said , accepted his theory , who was over forty years of age ...
... truth . They are not as yet petrified by prejudice . When Harvey broached his theory of the circulation of the blood , it met with violent opposition ; and no one , it is said , accepted his theory , who was over forty years of age ...
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... truth , regardless of educational biases , of parent , friend , sect , or party , is the rarest of spectacles ; and often it vanishes with the appetite of the boy . So of strict honesty ; it is the crown of one's early days . " Your son ...
... truth , regardless of educational biases , of parent , friend , sect , or party , is the rarest of spectacles ; and often it vanishes with the appetite of the boy . So of strict honesty ; it is the crown of one's early days . " Your son ...
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... truth ; Her pure thoughts clustering round her form , Like seraph garments . Go then , fair slave ! and in thy fetters teach What Heaven inspired , and Genius hath designed . Be thou evangel of true art , and preach The freedom of the ...
... truth ; Her pure thoughts clustering round her form , Like seraph garments . Go then , fair slave ! and in thy fetters teach What Heaven inspired , and Genius hath designed . Be thou evangel of true art , and preach The freedom of the ...
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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.