Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 50-51John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 |
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... persons would hesitate to reply , if asked how long the human race has existed on the globe , that the period was something less than six thousand years ; and perhaps most such persons would think themselves bound to this belief by ...
... persons would hesitate to reply , if asked how long the human race has existed on the globe , that the period was something less than six thousand years ; and perhaps most such persons would think themselves bound to this belief by ...
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... person the idea of a fish , and to another that of a human face , while a third sees no resemblance to any known object , has been intended to symbolize this or that idea ; but it is very important , and comparatively easy , to know ...
... person the idea of a fish , and to another that of a human face , while a third sees no resemblance to any known object , has been intended to symbolize this or that idea ; but it is very important , and comparatively easy , to know ...
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... person as the conviva satur , the philosopher who can lean back in his chair , as it were , and say : " There , I have had what I like ; I have had enough of it ; I am thoroughly comfortable ! A child might play with me now . " We need ...
... person as the conviva satur , the philosopher who can lean back in his chair , as it were , and say : " There , I have had what I like ; I have had enough of it ; I am thoroughly comfortable ! A child might play with me now . " We need ...
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... person , and the basin of broth he bestows on him is hard- ly spared from his own dinner . Like the disciple's cup of cold water , it is not with- out its reward . John Strong can well afford to compromise for frugal fare , humble ...
... person , and the basin of broth he bestows on him is hard- ly spared from his own dinner . Like the disciple's cup of cold water , it is not with- out its reward . John Strong can well afford to compromise for frugal fare , humble ...
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... person who can never be induced to listen to a compromise . " Right is right ! " says he , " and I stick to my principles . " True enough ! right is right , but wrong is also wrong ; and it is surely wrong to oppose your own solitary ...
... person who can never be induced to listen to a compromise . " Right is right ! " says he , " and I stick to my principles . " True enough ! right is right , but wrong is also wrong ; and it is surely wrong to oppose your own solitary ...
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Page 240 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 486 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Page 270 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Page 391 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 329 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back; Their shots along the deep slowly boom: Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail; Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
Page 90 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Page 87 - And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!
Page 270 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 133 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 275 - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory ; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.