The Harvard Advocate, Volumes 1-3

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Harvard Advocate, 1866 - College students' writings, American

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Page 83 - All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud, in the cause of liberty and reason, there has been her spirit in the midst of them; inspiring, encouraging, consoling; — by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, by the restless bed of Pascal, in the tribune of...
Page 136 - I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 116 - And I will place within them as a guide My umpire Conscience, whom if they will hear, Light after light, well used, they shall attain; And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
Page 39 - Forsaken 0 WALY, waly up the bank, And waly, waly, down the brae, And waly, waly, yon burn-side, Where I and my Love wont to gae!
Page 149 - I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
Page 39 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town, We were a comely sight to see; My love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysel
Page 115 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business, it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it...
Page 23 - Her parents held the Quaker rule, Which doth the human feeling cool, But she was train'd in Nature's school, Nature had blest her. A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning...
Page 23 - ... Nature's school, Nature had blest her. A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour ! gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning, When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning ? THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.
Page 29 - What was Christ's object in founding the Society which is called by his name, and how is it adapted to attain that object?

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