Littell's Living Age, Volume 91Living Age Company Incorporated, 1866 - American periodicals |
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... given long , long ago by the love which foresaw , teaches in after- years when the occasion has come . One thing recalls another , as one thing forebodes another , and sometimes the two together make a full chord of happiness , or may ...
... given long , long ago by the love which foresaw , teaches in after- years when the occasion has come . One thing recalls another , as one thing forebodes another , and sometimes the two together make a full chord of happiness , or may ...
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... given before . She had always told herself that it was impossible ; and as to all other questions , about her own heart or such like , she had put such questions away from her as being unnecessary , and , perhaps , un- seemly . The ...
... given before . She had always told herself that it was impossible ; and as to all other questions , about her own heart or such like , she had put such questions away from her as being unnecessary , and , perhaps , un- seemly . The ...
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... given character ; and when it is taken into account that , from the moment of meeting , that other character begins to be modified by his , the problem becomes too intricate for the human understanding . Shrewd guesses may of course be ...
... given character ; and when it is taken into account that , from the moment of meeting , that other character begins to be modified by his , the problem becomes too intricate for the human understanding . Shrewd guesses may of course be ...
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... given , must be endued with correspondent gen- eral properties belonging unto them as they are public Christian societies . And of such properties common with all societies Christian , it may not be denied that one of the very chiefest ...
... given , must be endued with correspondent gen- eral properties belonging unto them as they are public Christian societies . And of such properties common with all societies Christian , it may not be denied that one of the very chiefest ...
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... given to the subject race , and the faith which the Government owes to its own former negro soldiers , these are obligations altogether inferior in bind- ing force to those taken under the old Con- stitution , to let alone each State in ...
... given to the subject race , and the faith which the Government owes to its own former negro soldiers , these are obligations altogether inferior in bind- ing force to those taken under the old Con- stitution , to let alone each State in ...
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Page 197 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free; which is the mother of us all.
Page 194 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
Page 198 - ... have escaped from some higher sphere; they are the outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound; they are echoes from our Home; they are the voice of Angels, or the Magnificat of Saints, or the living laws of Divine Governance, or the Divine Attributes; something are they besides themselves, which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter,— though mortal man, and he perhaps not otherwise distinguished above his fellows, has the gift of eliciting them.
Page 448 - To do thy will is more than praise, As words are less than deeds, And simple trust can find thy ways We miss with chart of creeds.
Page 447 - We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown.
Page 210 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without thee I dare not die.
Page 326 - O to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
Page 448 - We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But, dim or clear, we own in thee The Light, the Truth, the Way...
Page 194 - O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; Not long, our stout old chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'Twas in that hour his stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land, The nation's flag to save. By rivers of their fathers' gore His first-born laurels grew, And well he deemed the sons would pour Their lives for glory too.
Page 112 - Tis true : there's magic in the web of it : A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work ; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk ; And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful Conserved of maidens