Library of the World's Best Literature: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner J.A. Hill, 1902 - Literature |
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... Never professing enthusiasm , never making a parade of sentiment , his practical wisdom was sometimes mistaken for the offspring of selfish prudence ; yet his hope was steadfast , like that hope which rests on the Rock of Ages , and his ...
... Never professing enthusiasm , never making a parade of sentiment , his practical wisdom was sometimes mistaken for the offspring of selfish prudence ; yet his hope was steadfast , like that hope which rests on the Rock of Ages , and his ...
Page 1453
... never with inquietude ; his countenance was mild and pleasing and full of benignity . At eleven years old left an orphan to the care of an excellent but unlettered mother , he grew up without learning . Of arith- metic and geometry he ...
... never with inquietude ; his countenance was mild and pleasing and full of benignity . At eleven years old left an orphan to the care of an excellent but unlettered mother , he grew up without learning . Of arith- metic and geometry he ...
Page 1454
... never have crossed the mountains . >>> Courage was so natural to him that it was hardly spoken of to his praise ; no one ever at any moment of his life discovered in him the least shrinking in danger ; and he had a hardihood of daring ...
... never have crossed the mountains . >>> Courage was so natural to him that it was hardly spoken of to his praise ; no one ever at any moment of his life discovered in him the least shrinking in danger ; and he had a hardihood of daring ...
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... never failed continuously to exert the attractive power of that influence , and never exerted it so sharply as to break its force . In secrecy he was unsurpassed ; but his secrecy had the char- acter of prudent reserve , not of cunning ...
... never failed continuously to exert the attractive power of that influence , and never exerted it so sharply as to break its force . In secrecy he was unsurpassed ; but his secrecy had the char- acter of prudent reserve , not of cunning ...
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... never made in council any one suggestion that was sublime but impracticable , never in action took to himself the praise or the blame of undertakings astonishing in conception , but beyond his means of execution . It was the most ...
... never made in council any one suggestion that was sublime but impracticable , never in action took to himself the praise or the blame of undertakings astonishing in conception , but beyond his means of execution . It was the most ...
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Popular passages
Page 1778 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 1778 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 1895 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 1832 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, shortlived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there.
Page 1683 - Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose On this afflicted prince. Fall like a cloud In gentle showers: give nothing that is loud Or painful to his slumbers: easy, sweet, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 1832 - With milk and honey blest ; Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice opprest. I know not, oh ! I know not What joys await us there ; What radiancy of glory, "What bliss beyond compare.
Page 1832 - For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest.
Page 1903 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 1742 - What benefits do they that are effectually called, partake of in this life ? A. They that are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.
Page 1450 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.