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... labor ; but the pleasure derived to ourselves and others from a clear communication of ideas and feel- ings , and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and audience , are considerations which give ...
... labor ; but the pleasure derived to ourselves and others from a clear communication of ideas and feel- ings , and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and audience , are considerations which give ...
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... labor . His aims were always fixed high , and he seldom fell below them ; the vast schemes , which he did not live to mature , were not without their use in carrying his mind upward , and giv- - ing it the excitement of a lofty motive ...
... labor . His aims were always fixed high , and he seldom fell below them ; the vast schemes , which he did not live to mature , were not without their use in carrying his mind upward , and giv- - ing it the excitement of a lofty motive ...
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... labor , together with the one day in seven in the christian world , allow sufficient time for this , if men would but apply them- selves to it with half as much zeal and diligence as they W together with the manner in which those habits ...
... labor , together with the one day in seven in the christian world , allow sufficient time for this , if men would but apply them- selves to it with half as much zeal and diligence as they W together with the manner in which those habits ...
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... labor and stu- dy will never make a man of knowledge and wisdom . This has been an unhappy temptation to persons of a vigorous and gay fancy , to despise learning and study . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and ...
... labor and stu- dy will never make a man of knowledge and wisdom . This has been an unhappy temptation to persons of a vigorous and gay fancy , to despise learning and study . They have been acknowledged to shine in an assembly , and ...
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... labor , toil , punishment threatened , penalty . Spell profit , advantage , gain , improvement , proficien- cy ; -prophet , one inspired to foretel future events , one of the sacred writers . Compensate , recompense , repay ...
... labor , toil , punishment threatened , penalty . Spell profit , advantage , gain , improvement , proficien- cy ; -prophet , one inspired to foretel future events , one of the sacred writers . Compensate , recompense , repay ...
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Page 240 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 156 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and...
Page 222 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 40 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Page 270 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 236 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 283 - Will he make many supplications unto thee ? Will he speak soft words unto thee ? Will he make a covenant with thee ? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens...
Page 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Page 270 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Page 283 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.