The Reasoner, Volumes 7-8J. Watson, 1850 |
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... live upon the people as ' paid agitators , ' they voluntarily lay down what no perse- cution would force them , no price would induce them , to give up . This is simply the case of the present writer , who now passes to work that may ...
... live upon the people as ' paid agitators , ' they voluntarily lay down what no perse- cution would force them , no price would induce them , to give up . This is simply the case of the present writer , who now passes to work that may ...
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... live in a time of apathy without comprehending it . It must have been this result which our impassioned Shelley , with the pres- cience of poetry , foresaw and aimed to avert when he drew the instructive portrait of Peter Bell : - - To ...
... live in a time of apathy without comprehending it . It must have been this result which our impassioned Shelley , with the pres- cience of poetry , foresaw and aimed to avert when he drew the instructive portrait of Peter Bell : - - To ...
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... act on principles of right , and whoever aids in showing their violation of justice shakes their power and abridges their reign . We happily live in a time when the only available public defence of misrule involves admissions of the 5.
... act on principles of right , and whoever aids in showing their violation of justice shakes their power and abridges their reign . We happily live in a time when the only available public defence of misrule involves admissions of the 5.
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... lives in , and the com- panions beside him , and the unseen region of ideas which lies about him as infantine nations do , he is impelled to refer his activity and his desires to the future which he supposes to contain what he at ...
... lives in , and the com- panions beside him , and the unseen region of ideas which lies about him as infantine nations do , he is impelled to refer his activity and his desires to the future which he supposes to contain what he at ...
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... lives on the Southern shore of the St. Lawrence , and the other on the North of that river , is a striking example of the observation here made . The one is a citizen of the United States ; the other a subject of England , a Cana- dian ...
... lives on the Southern shore of the St. Lawrence , and the other on the North of that river , is a striking example of the observation here made . The one is a citizen of the United States ; the other a subject of England , a Cana- dian ...
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Page 169 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
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Page 37 - Quickening my truant feet across the lawn : Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave a pause to care. Up springs, at every step, to claim a tear, Some little friendship formed and cherished here ; And not the lightest leaf, but trembling teems With golden visions and romantic dreams.
Page 59 - I now feel that I am dying : our care must be to minimize the pain. Do not let any of the servants come into the room, and keep away the youths : it will be distressing to them, and they can be of no service. Yet I must not be alone : you will remain with me, and you only ; and then we shall have reduced the pain to the least possible amount.
Page 43 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Page 132 - Careless seems the great Avenger ; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Page 118 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.