Contributions to HerographyErastus Darrow, 1850 - 101 páginas |
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... action on the same high prin- ciple , that raised the hero of an hundred generations from his humble Corsican ... actions , thoughts and feelings ? Remember and improve by this sublime lesson . When you are called upon ལ་ CONTRIBUTIONS ...
... action on the same high prin- ciple , that raised the hero of an hundred generations from his humble Corsican ... actions , thoughts and feelings ? Remember and improve by this sublime lesson . When you are called upon ལ་ CONTRIBUTIONS ...
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... admitted and lamentable degradation , some resembling lineaments of the great uni- versal Sire in whose image he was made . It is the action f this holy instinct , that leads us to praise the 56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEROGRAPHY .
... admitted and lamentable degradation , some resembling lineaments of the great uni- versal Sire in whose image he was made . It is the action f this holy instinct , that leads us to praise the 56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEROGRAPHY .
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... action by the reflection . that circumstances make men . They suppose if they had lived in the same age , and been placed in the same posi- tions as the eminent philosophers , historians , warriors , po- ets , orators or statesmen of ...
... action by the reflection . that circumstances make men . They suppose if they had lived in the same age , and been placed in the same posi- tions as the eminent philosophers , historians , warriors , po- ets , orators or statesmen of ...
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... action at a most interesting period of the world's history ; the great battle is now being fought , whose general result will determine whether freedom and the rights of man shall be respected , or whether the world is ever to remain ...
... action at a most interesting period of the world's history ; the great battle is now being fought , whose general result will determine whether freedom and the rights of man shall be respected , or whether the world is ever to remain ...
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... action . Undismayed by the threatning aspect of all around and before him , unmoved by terror of the approach- ing storm , unshaken by the frowns of gigantic opposition , he marched boldly forward to his heaven - appointed task . When ...
... action . Undismayed by the threatning aspect of all around and before him , unmoved by terror of the approach- ing storm , unshaken by the frowns of gigantic opposition , he marched boldly forward to his heaven - appointed task . When ...
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admiration altar Antisthenes artificial society Athens Benjamin Franklin biographers as singularly bling brain-quickening draught breath brilliant volubility character cility and grace crystal scholars dignitaries of artificial Diogenes eternal excelled in colloquial father fear fear and tremble feel Felicia Hemans forcibly in extemporaneous Franklin friends genius glorious glory hero Highland Mary honored hope human immortal inspiration truly divine intellectual judges and draymen king labor lamentable predisposition live lords and boot-blacks Louis XVI man's mankind ment mighty mind moral nation nature necta noble onward PARNASSIAN patriotism perhaps philosopher picious apprehension pilgrim fathers Plato poet poet's prudence poetry prejudice prone to conviviality prudence he resolved refreshments so common reservoir of brilliant rian refreshments Robert Burns scholars and boors sentiment Sinope society soul spirit spoken were ready struggling upward tain-dew of bacchanalian thou tion Tom Moore true truth unpremeditated activity volubility was doubtless Washington YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
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Página 55 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Página 37 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 11 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 6 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 11 - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, and a' that; The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that — Though hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that ; For a* that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a
Página 20 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Página 6 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Página 11 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a
Página 20 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Página 5 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?