The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 3R. Fenner, 1818 - 375 pages |
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... readers re- peated admonition and repeated consolation . I have perhaps presumed too far in tres- passing on your attention , and in giving way to my own thoughts : but I was unwilling to leave any thing unsaid which might induce you to ...
... readers re- peated admonition and repeated consolation . I have perhaps presumed too far in tres- passing on your attention , and in giving way to my own thoughts : but I was unwilling to leave any thing unsaid which might induce you to ...
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... readers . In answer to his Correspondent , it need scarcely here be repeated , that one of the main purposes of his work is to weigh , honestly and thoughtfully , the moral worth and intel- lectual power of the age in which we live ; to ...
... readers . In answer to his Correspondent , it need scarcely here be repeated , that one of the main purposes of his work is to weigh , honestly and thoughtfully , the moral worth and intel- lectual power of the age in which we live ; to ...
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... reader will , I hope , pardon me if I embrace the opportunity of recalling old affections , afforded me by its fitness to illustrate the present subject . A sedate man he was , and had been a miner from his boyhood . Well did he ...
... reader will , I hope , pardon me if I embrace the opportunity of recalling old affections , afforded me by its fitness to illustrate the present subject . A sedate man he was , and had been a miner from his boyhood . Well did he ...
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... fluc- tuating application , if only the proposed sense be not passed upon the reader as the existing and authorized one , I shall make no other apology for the use of the word , Ta- lent , in this preceding Essay and elsewhere in my 84.
... fluc- tuating application , if only the proposed sense be not passed upon the reader as the existing and authorized one , I shall make no other apology for the use of the word , Ta- lent , in this preceding Essay and elsewhere in my 84.
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... reader will find these and many other charac- teristic points contained in , and deducible from the relations in which the mind of the three countries bears to TIME . GERMANY . PAST and FUTURE . ENGLAND . PAST and PRESENT . FRANCE . THE ...
... reader will find these and many other charac- teristic points contained in , and deducible from the relations in which the mind of the three countries bears to TIME . GERMANY . PAST and FUTURE . ENGLAND . PAST and PRESENT . FRANCE . THE ...
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Page 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A sIx years
Page 243 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Page 243 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 243 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 143 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 227 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 64 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!
Page 242 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 272 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infants' breath: And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 149 - My liege, and madam, — to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief...