Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual CultureCrocker & Ruggles, 1842 - 317 páginas |
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... Sir James Mackintosh , " Think more of the good you can do , than the evil you can only la- ment . " And when about to be called to an- other world , they will be able to say with Whitfield , who preached the day before his death , and ...
... Sir James Mackintosh , " Think more of the good you can do , than the evil you can only la- ment . " And when about to be called to an- other world , they will be able to say with Whitfield , who preached the day before his death , and ...
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... Sir James Mackintosh , con- gratulated a young man very coldly , who brought him the solution of a problem . " I have done this to have a seat in the academy , " said the young man . " Sir , " answered D'Alembert , " with such motives ...
... Sir James Mackintosh , con- gratulated a young man very coldly , who brought him the solution of a problem . " I have done this to have a seat in the academy , " said the young man . " Sir , " answered D'Alembert , " with such motives ...
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... Sir James Mackintosh , that while his mind soared through every region of poetry and thought , his heart clung to the hearth of his father , and to the children who shared it with him . " He was one of those men of ge- nius , who repaid ...
... Sir James Mackintosh , that while his mind soared through every region of poetry and thought , his heart clung to the hearth of his father , and to the children who shared it with him . " He was one of those men of ge- nius , who repaid ...
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Página 233 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 99 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Página 113 - Give, and it shall be given unto you ; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
Página 153 - ... thought with him Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser thou ! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love, True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
Página 297 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Página 173 - Agricultural colleges may spread all their blandishments ; but farmers will not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Página 244 - The instruction derived from history thus written would be of a vivid and practical character. It would be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner.
Página 283 - He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Página 211 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
Página 5 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.