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... doubt that my book would float to a literary immortality , if I could only make it as original as the waters of our Lakes ! When an author invites the attention of the read- er , his first duty seems to be , to afford some proof that he ...
... doubt that my book would float to a literary immortality , if I could only make it as original as the waters of our Lakes ! When an author invites the attention of the read- er , his first duty seems to be , to afford some proof that he ...
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... doubt whether , reader as he was , and immortal as are their works , he had ever heard of their names . There were no Homers nor Horaces among his volumes ; for he knew no language but his mother tongue . His library con- sisted of Mr ...
... doubt whether , reader as he was , and immortal as are their works , he had ever heard of their names . There were no Homers nor Horaces among his volumes ; for he knew no language but his mother tongue . His library con- sisted of Mr ...
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... doubt whether they very accurately distinguished the human composition from the divine . Their religion consisted in a deep reverence for God and all his institutions ; a hearty love for their fellow- creatures ; a humility which ...
... doubt whether they very accurately distinguished the human composition from the divine . Their religion consisted in a deep reverence for God and all his institutions ; a hearty love for their fellow- creatures ; a humility which ...
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... doubts not , when the right configuration of particles comes about , he shall see a beautiful woman hop out of his tub , whom he intends to marry . I called on him the other day , and found him sweating away at his task , nothing ...
... doubts not , when the right configuration of particles comes about , he shall see a beautiful woman hop out of his tub , whom he intends to marry . I called on him the other day , and found him sweating away at his task , nothing ...
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... doubts in religion were but the result of their superior discernment ; their skepticism was but the effect of self - knowledge . All men teach that man has very limited powers - that he reasons to be de- ceived , and asserts to be ...
... doubts in religion were but the result of their superior discernment ; their skepticism was but the effect of self - knowledge . All men teach that man has very limited powers - that he reasons to be de- ceived , and asserts to be ...
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Página 206 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Página 195 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 195 - Yond" Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 131 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 104 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man— like flowers.
Página 41 - And certainly discipline is not only the removal of disorder; but if any visible shape can be given to divine things, the very visible shape and image of virtue, whereby she is not only seen in the regular gestures and motions of her heavenly paces as she walks, but also makes the harmony of her voice audible to mortal ears.
Página 181 - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick...
Página 105 - Thus groan the old, till by disease oppress'd, They taste a final woe, and then they rest. Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; — • There children dwell who know no parents...
Página 240 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Página 206 - Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards...