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... called forth and encouraged into successful vigor , as was the talent of young WEST by a few engravings of Greveling ; and each new aspirant after the distinctions or pleasures of Art , would be a centre of new influence over the minds ...
... called forth and encouraged into successful vigor , as was the talent of young WEST by a few engravings of Greveling ; and each new aspirant after the distinctions or pleasures of Art , would be a centre of new influence over the minds ...
Page 77
... called a destroyer , who for a perishable state , gives us that which is eternal ? Can he be styled the enemy , who is the best friend only of the best ; who never deserts us at our utmost need ; and whose friendship proves the most ...
... called a destroyer , who for a perishable state , gives us that which is eternal ? Can he be styled the enemy , who is the best friend only of the best ; who never deserts us at our utmost need ; and whose friendship proves the most ...
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... called to pass beyond the visible precincts of this present existence , let us feel that they still live . God's universe is not explored , when we have surveyed islands , and oceans , and the shores of earth's spreading continents ...
... called to pass beyond the visible precincts of this present existence , let us feel that they still live . God's universe is not explored , when we have surveyed islands , and oceans , and the shores of earth's spreading continents ...
Page 85
... called California , on the south , which constitutes a part of the Mexican republic . Expeditions for the purposes of discovery , trade , or settlement , and disputes between the governments or the people of distant civilized nations ...
... called California , on the south , which constitutes a part of the Mexican republic . Expeditions for the purposes of discovery , trade , or settlement , and disputes between the governments or the people of distant civilized nations ...
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... called me to some gentle hill - top , from whence I was able to cast my eyes over all the pleasant land . As when I stood with Lot and Abraham , on the high grounds , surveying the well - watered land- scape of Jordan , while they ...
... called me to some gentle hill - top , from whence I was able to cast my eyes over all the pleasant land . As when I stood with Lot and Abraham , on the high grounds , surveying the well - watered land- scape of Jordan , while they ...
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Page 419 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 419 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 419 - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee , my worthy friend, ' For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped...
Page 419 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 97 - In my opinion, profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason; and it is the pert superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other...
Page 94 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 94 - ... to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Page 507 - Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die.
Page 149 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 98 - ... with such an act, he turned up his eyes, and with difficulty perceived, at an immeasurable height, a flight of condors soaring in circles in a particular spot. Beneath...