The Living Age, Volume 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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... knew the destiny that awaits him , the countless wounds with which that body shall one day be pierced , the agony that shall rend thine own soul ! " Fatima , in despair , is comforted by her husband Ali , and they go together into the ...
... knew the destiny that awaits him , the countless wounds with which that body shall one day be pierced , the agony that shall rend thine own soul ! " Fatima , in despair , is comforted by her husband Ali , and they go together into the ...
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... knew between them ! This very inferiority may no law but that of the strongest , when make the Koran , for certain purposes and God raised up among us a man of our own for people at a low stage of mental growth , race , of noble descent ...
... knew between them ! This very inferiority may no law but that of the strongest , when make the Koran , for certain purposes and God raised up among us a man of our own for people at a low stage of mental growth , race , of noble descent ...
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... knew that the burthen she carried was powers mildness and sweet reasonable- light compared with her heavy heart ness . The latter , the power which so heavy and sorrowful , as she remembered puts before our view duty of every kind how ...
... knew that the burthen she carried was powers mildness and sweet reasonable- light compared with her heavy heart ness . The latter , the power which so heavy and sorrowful , as she remembered puts before our view duty of every kind how ...
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... knew , and whom she felt sure " they must ha ' come home to . " Even when she prayed for her son , the sole possessor of all the softness in her somewhat hard nature , it was rather in the spirit of thanking God he was not like other ...
... knew , and whom she felt sure " they must ha ' come home to . " Even when she prayed for her son , the sole possessor of all the softness in her somewhat hard nature , it was rather in the spirit of thanking God he was not like other ...
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... knew was certain to come , he stepped out , hoping to gain from the cool air relief and inspiration how best to act . He was still calculating in how short a time he could run down to the cottage , in the direction of which he stood ...
... knew was certain to come , he stepped out , hoping to gain from the cool air relief and inspiration how best to act . He was still calculating in how short a time he could run down to the cottage , in the direction of which he stood ...
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Page 71 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 141 - ... because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over, and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason of the thing ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 286 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 75 - Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may by...
Page 50 - Free love — free field — we love but while we may: The woods are hush'd, their music is no more: The leaf is dead, the yearning past away: New leaf, new life — the days of frost are o'er: New life, new love to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love, — free field — we love but while we may.
Page 412 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 258 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 70 - Add that whate'er of terror or of love Or beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred mood Of passion ; was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind.
Page 381 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; "Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. They call us' to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 411 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.