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Page 81
With what strange pleasure does the Scottish mountaineer listen , ' through the
live - long night , to the wild notes of the border Minstrel ! With what transport do
the wild men of America , recount in the rude war song , the valor and sufferings
of ...
With what strange pleasure does the Scottish mountaineer listen , ' through the
live - long night , to the wild notes of the border Minstrel ! With what transport do
the wild men of America , recount in the rude war song , the valor and sufferings
of ...
Page 141
The glory of God , the building up of the church , the happiness of mankindthese
are the great objects for which he wishes to live and toil , and spend his earthly
substance . Give him the means and the opportunity of doing good — let the poor
...
The glory of God , the building up of the church , the happiness of mankindthese
are the great objects for which he wishes to live and toil , and spend his earthly
substance . Give him the means and the opportunity of doing good — let the poor
...
Page 155
Take any two men , of equal talents , at twenty years of age - let one of them live
for himself , and bury all his thoughts and affections upon the paternal estate ; -
let the other live for a dying world , and at three score , mark the difference ...
Take any two men , of equal talents , at twenty years of age - let one of them live
for himself , and bury all his thoughts and affections upon the paternal estate ; -
let the other live for a dying world , and at three score , mark the difference ...
Page 247
Then , not only vill it live ; but be worthy to live Then will the blessing of many
ready to perish coine upon its sons . The observations which I have made in this
address , have so direct a bearing upon the question at what age ought a youth
to ...
Then , not only vill it live ; but be worthy to live Then will the blessing of many
ready to perish coine upon its sons . The observations which I have made in this
address , have so direct a bearing upon the question at what age ought a youth
to ...
Page 357
He could , and did mould the characters of a large proportion of every class , we
will not say into his own image , but into babits of thought and action , specially
adapted to the age in which they were to live . How who are now acting their
parts ...
He could , and did mould the characters of a large proportion of every class , we
will not say into his own image , but into babits of thought and action , specially
adapted to the age in which they were to live . How who are now acting their
parts ...
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| Title | Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews |
| Author | Heman Humphrey |
| Publisher | J. S. and C. Adams, 1834 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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