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... sown broadcast over the land , creating and ministering to a depraved appetite . Consequently , the pure and the elevating in moral sentiment , the beautiful and the sublime KD33029 PREFACE . in nature , the simple and the.
... sown broadcast over the land , creating and ministering to a depraved appetite . Consequently , the pure and the elevating in moral sentiment , the beautiful and the sublime KD33029 PREFACE . in nature , the simple and the.
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David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker. KD33029 PREFACE . in nature , the simple and the truthful in actual life , have been sought for by us , as the only healthy food for the growing mind . With these views , we have tried to ex- clude ...
David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker. KD33029 PREFACE . in nature , the simple and the truthful in actual life , have been sought for by us , as the only healthy food for the growing mind . With these views , we have tried to ex- clude ...
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... nature in her wildest scenes ! Antithesis , placid . Not only in her calm , mild , gentle scenes , but even in her wildest scenes . Our safety - our lives depend on your fidelity . Meaning not our safety alone , but our very lives . I ...
... nature in her wildest scenes ! Antithesis , placid . Not only in her calm , mild , gentle scenes , but even in her wildest scenes . Our safety - our lives depend on your fidelity . Meaning not our safety alone , but our very lives . I ...
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... Nature's own offerings to her children . For it is the especial privilege of the young , to revel in her charms , and to love her with all the heart in sun- shine and in storm . 5. God has made the world an Eden for their enjoyment ...
... Nature's own offerings to her children . For it is the especial privilege of the young , to revel in her charms , and to love her with all the heart in sun- shine and in storm . 5. God has made the world an Eden for their enjoyment ...
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... nature up to nature's God . " Then will the offerings of your hearts , made in the love of all created things , be accepted on the altars of a temple not made with hands . 14. Since the great purpose of life is to advance in wisdom and ...
... nature up to nature's God . " Then will the offerings of your hearts , made in the love of all created things , be accepted on the altars of a temple not made with hands . 14. Since the great purpose of life is to advance in wisdom and ...
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Page 156 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 164 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 230 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 234 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Page 71 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 198 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Page 229 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes.
Page 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 72 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.
Page 31 - E'en on the edge that wrought her death Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token, in her fall, Peace to her foes, and love to all.