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... object , distinctly avowed and put prominently forward , appealed directly and forcibly to those generous feelings , which no condition of society can utterly extinguish in man . The Church , which , however faulty , has , to do it ...
... object , distinctly avowed and put prominently forward , appealed directly and forcibly to those generous feelings , which no condition of society can utterly extinguish in man . The Church , which , however faulty , has , to do it ...
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... object of his Platonic devotion , and to clothe her , in his enthusiastic imagination , with all ideal virtues and graces . In honor of her , he braved every hazard , and wrought all noble deeds ; and to receive from her a smile , an ...
... object of his Platonic devotion , and to clothe her , in his enthusiastic imagination , with all ideal virtues and graces . In honor of her , he braved every hazard , and wrought all noble deeds ; and to receive from her a smile , an ...
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... object of reverence to Christians , was natural enough . Accordingly , from the recognition of Christianity by Constantine , at the beginning of the fourth cen- tury , we find the subjects of the Roman empire esteeming it almost a ...
... object of reverence to Christians , was natural enough . Accordingly , from the recognition of Christianity by Constantine , at the beginning of the fourth cen- tury , we find the subjects of the Roman empire esteeming it almost a ...
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... object , the perma- nent deliverance of Palestine , yet it is not the less true , that the crusades were , on the whole , as beneficial in their effects , as worthy in their design . At the time of the preaching of the first crusade at ...
... object , the perma- nent deliverance of Palestine , yet it is not the less true , that the crusades were , on the whole , as beneficial in their effects , as worthy in their design . At the time of the preaching of the first crusade at ...
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... object aimed at was to wrest from a barbarous race a territory which they held only by the right of the sword , and to roll back from Europe the encroaching tide of aggres- sion , by a people whose invariable alternatives to the ...
... object aimed at was to wrest from a barbarous race a territory which they held only by the right of the sword , and to roll back from Europe the encroaching tide of aggres- sion , by a people whose invariable alternatives to the ...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8 Charles Fenno Hoffman,Lewis Gaylord Clark,Kinahan Cornwallis,Timothy Flint,John Holmes Agnew Visualização integral - 1836 |
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Página 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Página 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Página 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Página 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Página 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Página 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.