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... moral character . All I contend for is , that there was no waste of life and its powers ; she made the most of them , both in the way of enjoyment and usefulness ; she did not permit either intellectual or animal life to stagnate ...
... moral character . All I contend for is , that there was no waste of life and its powers ; she made the most of them , both in the way of enjoyment and usefulness ; she did not permit either intellectual or animal life to stagnate ...
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... moral sublime ; but I think with you , that the love of fame -- of immortal fame , is rarely felt ; and only by minds of the highest order . The majority are insensible to its influence . They hear in the valleys of life no voice but ...
... moral sublime ; but I think with you , that the love of fame -- of immortal fame , is rarely felt ; and only by minds of the highest order . The majority are insensible to its influence . They hear in the valleys of life no voice but ...
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... moral and intellectual taste ; but there were minor points upon which they did not think alike , upon which Constance acquiesced in Mrs. Greu- ville's PRIVATE LIFE . 39 "That settles the matter in your opinion and Miss ...
... moral and intellectual taste ; but there were minor points upon which they did not think alike , upon which Constance acquiesced in Mrs. Greu- ville's PRIVATE LIFE . 39 "That settles the matter in your opinion and Miss ...
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... moral grounds , " ex- claimed Constance , “ I must take up your tone , and urge my moral objections . Consider the time , the precious inestimable , invaluable time , that is wasted with those dull , prosy , tiresome people . " 6 " Yes ...
... moral grounds , " ex- claimed Constance , “ I must take up your tone , and urge my moral objections . Consider the time , the precious inestimable , invaluable time , that is wasted with those dull , prosy , tiresome people . " 6 " Yes ...
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... moral and religious subjects , awakened their fears as much as it disap- pointed their hopes . They felt that dissonance of moral taste between Edward and themselves which checks the tide and flow of affectionate feeling , and 54 ...
... moral and religious subjects , awakened their fears as much as it disap- pointed their hopes . They felt that dissonance of moral taste between Edward and themselves which checks the tide and flow of affectionate feeling , and 54 ...
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Página 60 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 197 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 53 - tis not forbidden here : Amid the groves you may indulge the muse, Or tend the blooms, and deck the vernal year ; Or softly stealing, with your watery gear, Along the brooks, the crimson-spotted fry You may delude ; the whilst, amused, you hear Now the hoarse stream, and now the zephyr's sigh, Attuned to the birds, and woodland melody.
Página 197 - But, let me whisper i' your lug, Ye're aiblins nae temptation. VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
Página 37 - ... all those who are placed below the flight of fame, and who hear in the valleys of life no voice but that of necessity...
Página 24 - The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 75 - Or in the starry regions, or th' abyss, To Reason's and to Fancy's eye display'd ; The first up-tracing from the dreary void, The chain of causes and effects to Him, The world-producing Essence, who alone Possesses being ; while the last receives The whole magnificence of heaven...
Página 42 - But we are to rejoice with those that rejoice, and to weep with those that weep.