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... desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity . He might have learned , that the ancient tribunes , so strong and sacred in the public opinion , were not distinguished in style , habit , or appearance , In from an ordinary ...
... desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity . He might have learned , that the ancient tribunes , so strong and sacred in the public opinion , were not distinguished in style , habit , or appearance , In from an ordinary ...
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... desires , and not his desires him , and sticks not fast by the way , ( for that contentment is repentance , ) but ... desire to file off his fetters , and help him out of prison . A NOBLE AND RETIRED HOUSEKEEPER Is one whose bounty is ...
... desires , and not his desires him , and sticks not fast by the way , ( for that contentment is repentance , ) but ... desire to file off his fetters , and help him out of prison . A NOBLE AND RETIRED HOUSEKEEPER Is one whose bounty is ...
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... desire to go right ; and , if they had a mind , need not mistake their duty ; but might be certain when they had performed , when failed in it . Such a law of morality Jesus Christ hath given , in the New Testament ; but by the latter ...
... desire to go right ; and , if they had a mind , need not mistake their duty ; but might be certain when they had performed , when failed in it . Such a law of morality Jesus Christ hath given , in the New Testament ; but by the latter ...
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... desire to learn , there of necessity will be much arguing , much writing , many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making . Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst ...
... desire to learn , there of necessity will be much arguing , much writing , many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making . Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst ...
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... desire nothing but peace - that their heart is set upon nothing else . When Casar was engaging all the world in war , he wrote to Tully , " There was nothing worthier of an honest man than to have contention with nobody . " It was the ...
... desire nothing but peace - that their heart is set upon nothing else . When Casar was engaging all the world in war , he wrote to Tully , " There was nothing worthier of an honest man than to have contention with nobody . " It was the ...
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Page 55 - And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around : It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Page 58 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 59 - Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made: Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like a welcoming. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze — On me alone it blew.
Page 55 - And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 30 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 176 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 82 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind...
Page 58 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Page 212 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 235 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and...