The Blade and the Ear: Thoughts for a Young ManWm. V. Spencer, 1865 - Всего страниц: 233 |
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... virtue and 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 ...
... virtue and 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 ...
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... virtue , honor , truth , and religion ; or the " heart of stone , " dead to every noble aspiration , content to herd with the vulgar , profane , sensual , and selfish ; clay , that may be fashioned to a vessel of honor , or made into a ...
... virtue , honor , truth , and religion ; or the " heart of stone , " dead to every noble aspiration , content to herd with the vulgar , profane , sensual , and selfish ; clay , that may be fashioned to a vessel of honor , or made into a ...
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... virtue is an unknown thing . As regards the interest which the members of a family have in the characters of each other , this spot is of paramount concern . Whatever relations we sustain among a circle of kindred , there is an indi ...
... virtue is an unknown thing . As regards the interest which the members of a family have in the characters of each other , this spot is of paramount concern . Whatever relations we sustain among a circle of kindred , there is an indi ...
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... virtue , we cannot secure the approbation of others . It is real worth alone to which the world at large , and on the whole , accord this meed . And , as with individuals , so with families , they have always a char- acter and ...
... virtue , we cannot secure the approbation of others . It is real worth alone to which the world at large , and on the whole , accord this meed . And , as with individuals , so with families , they have always a char- acter and ...
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... virtue , he will say to the tempter : " How can I do this wickedness against the honor , and to the dis- grace of that spot , which not only conscience and principle , but every affection of nature , bids me hold sacred ? " The welfare ...
... virtue , he will say to the tempter : " How can I do this wickedness against the honor , and to the dis- grace of that spot , which not only conscience and principle , but every affection of nature , bids me hold sacred ? " The welfare ...
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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.