The National Magazine, Volume 2Abel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1853 - American essays |
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... Truth alone , Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne . " Marvel , by opposing the ministry and its measures , created himself many enemies , and made himself very obnoxious to the government : yet Charles II . took great delight in ...
... Truth alone , Bids Lust and Folly tremble on the throne . " Marvel , by opposing the ministry and its measures , created himself many enemies , and made himself very obnoxious to the government : yet Charles II . took great delight in ...
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... truth . One day , early in the spring of 1737 , the stage - coach from Lichfield brought up to London two young gentlemen who had come thither to try their fortunes in the metropolis . One of them , a youth just verging to manhood , had ...
... truth . One day , early in the spring of 1737 , the stage - coach from Lichfield brought up to London two young gentlemen who had come thither to try their fortunes in the metropolis . One of them , a youth just verging to manhood , had ...
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... truth , our country's boast Through many a glorious age ; The truth that gilds her high renown , And lights her letter'd page ; A BOUT the time of the Re- formation , when Bibles were scarce , a copy was usu- ally chained to a ...
... truth , our country's boast Through many a glorious age ; The truth that gilds her high renown , And lights her letter'd page ; A BOUT the time of the Re- formation , when Bibles were scarce , a copy was usu- ally chained to a ...
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... truth , clothing truth herself Hence the danger to which its worshipers are exposed . " It cannot mislead us , " say they , " because it is beautiful . " It cannot be far wrong , -if we grant it wrong at all , - " For even the light ...
... truth , clothing truth herself Hence the danger to which its worshipers are exposed . " It cannot mislead us , " say they , " because it is beautiful . " It cannot be far wrong , -if we grant it wrong at all , - " For even the light ...
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... truth , whether that empire be corporeal power and beauty , or mental power and virtue . | Here labor , however , is not thus rewarded . It must be well directed , in harmony with the needs and powers of the individual general , as ...
... truth , whether that empire be corporeal power and beauty , or mental power and virtue . | Here labor , however , is not thus rewarded . It must be well directed , in harmony with the needs and powers of the individual general , as ...
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Page 240 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 73 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 489 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 465 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again.
Page 74 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 341 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 441 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these ; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother ; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother ; Philip, and Bartholomew ; Thomas, and Matthew the publican ; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus ; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Page 236 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 74 - In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people, They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor woman, They are neither brute nor human, They are Ghouls...
Page 73 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...