Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1852 |
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... fathers " the best of men and the wisest , " how will they regard this new great man ? They will see nothing remarkable in him except that he is fluent and superficial , dangerous and revolu tionary . He disturbs their notions of order ...
... fathers " the best of men and the wisest , " how will they regard this new great man ? They will see nothing remarkable in him except that he is fluent and superficial , dangerous and revolu tionary . He disturbs their notions of order ...
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Theodore Parker. head , full of precepts and precedents , the lore of his fathers , the experience of a hard life , logical , slow , cal- culating , distrustful , remembering much and fearing much , but hoping little , confiding only in ...
Theodore Parker. head , full of precepts and precedents , the lore of his fathers , the experience of a hard life , logical , slow , cal- culating , distrustful , remembering much and fearing much , but hoping little , confiding only in ...
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... Father for give them , for they know not what they do ! " The Jehovah of the Old Testament , was awful and stern , a man of war , hating the wicked . The sacerdotal conception of God at Rome and Athens was lower yet . No wonder then ...
... Father for give them , for they know not what they do ! " The Jehovah of the Old Testament , was awful and stern , a man of war , hating the wicked . The sacerdotal conception of God at Rome and Athens was lower yet . No wonder then ...
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... father and mother the natural teachers of children ; above all is it so in their religious culture . But there are some who cannot , many who will not fulfil this trust . Hence it has been found necessary for wise and good men to offer ...
... father and mother the natural teachers of children ; above all is it so in their religious culture . But there are some who cannot , many who will not fulfil this trust . Hence it has been found necessary for wise and good men to offer ...
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... fathers ; it is a better thing to honor the saints of to - day , the live heroism of men who do the battle , when that battle is all around us . I know a few such saints ; here and there a hero of that stamp , and I will not wait till ...
... fathers ; it is a better thing to honor the saints of to - day , the live heroism of men who do the battle , when that battle is all around us . I know a few such saints ; here and there a hero of that stamp , and I will not wait till ...
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Page 50 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me.
Page 333 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page 168 - Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglass in red herrings ; And noble name and cultured land, Palace, and park, and vassal band. Are powerless to the notes of hand Of Rothschild or the Barings.
Page 71 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms— the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse,— friend, foe,— in one red burial blent!
Page 70 - She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise and joy espied A monk supporting Marmion's head ; A pious man whom duty brought To dubious verge of battle fought, To shrive the dying, bless the dead. Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave, And, as she stooped his brow to lave — " Is it the hand of Clare," he said, "Or injured Constance, bathes my head?
Page 28 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 127 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me.
Page 28 - For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn.
Page 8 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.