The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1837 |
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... perhaps all education must that is placed in the hands of a distinct and embodied class , who therefore bring to it the peculiar and hereditary prejudices of their order ) has controlled his imagi- nation to a reverence of former times ...
... perhaps all education must that is placed in the hands of a distinct and embodied class , who therefore bring to it the peculiar and hereditary prejudices of their order ) has controlled his imagi- nation to a reverence of former times ...
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... perhaps presumed too far in trespassing on your attention , and in giving way to my own thoughts ; but I was unwilling to leave any thing unsaid which might induce you to consider with favour the request I was anxious to make , in the ...
... perhaps presumed too far in trespassing on your attention , and in giving way to my own thoughts ; but I was unwilling to leave any thing unsaid which might induce you to consider with favour the request I was anxious to make , in the ...
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... past is a mighty accumulation of many such periods , perhaps the whole of recorded time , or at least the whole of that portion of it in * See Ashe's Travels in America . which our own country has been distinguished . We may 24 THE FRIEND .
... past is a mighty accumulation of many such periods , perhaps the whole of recorded time , or at least the whole of that portion of it in * See Ashe's Travels in America . which our own country has been distinguished . We may 24 THE FRIEND .
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... perhaps so thoroughly destroyed by the gradual influence of increasing knowledge ; and under the oppression of which , if they had continued to exist , the virtue and intellectual prowess of the succeeding century could not have ...
... perhaps so thoroughly destroyed by the gradual influence of increasing knowledge ; and under the oppression of which , if they had continued to exist , the virtue and intellectual prowess of the succeeding century could not have ...
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... perhaps , or assuredly a life exposed to scorn , insult , persecu- tion , and hatred ; but cheered by encouragement from a grateful few , by applauding conscience , and by a prophetic anticipation , perhaps , of fame -a late , though ...
... perhaps , or assuredly a life exposed to scorn , insult , persecu- tion , and hatred ; but cheered by encouragement from a grateful few , by applauding conscience , and by a prophetic anticipation , perhaps , of fame -a late , though ...
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Página 198 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 121 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad : Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
Página 119 - To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Página 197 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Página 253 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
Página 142 - Or sympathy, or some connatural force, Powerful at greatest distance to unite, With secret amity, things of like kind, By secretest conveyance.
Página 184 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Página 197 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
Página 121 - Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Página 247 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...