Baccalaureate and Other Sermons and AddressesF. H. Revell, 1892 - 435 pages |
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... beauty . The last of the group became her husband . He was older , but it was a happy marriage . And , though she was taken hence more than forty years . ago , he has remained faithful to her memory . PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE . 13.
... beauty . The last of the group became her husband . He was older , but it was a happy marriage . And , though she was taken hence more than forty years . ago , he has remained faithful to her memory . PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE . 13.
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... beauty and in sustained strength . To the younger reader of only ordinary abilities they bring a lesson and a quiet inspiration . Nature is truly great out of such materials to make such men . The thoroughness of the writer was the ...
... beauty and in sustained strength . To the younger reader of only ordinary abilities they bring a lesson and a quiet inspiration . Nature is truly great out of such materials to make such men . The thoroughness of the writer was the ...
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... beauty and her moral power . This college ideal we love , and here in the Acadian calm of the on - coming Sabbath evening , like Gabriel in the story , we look up from beneath the trees , and wait and watch for the gleam of a lamp and a ...
... beauty and her moral power . This college ideal we love , and here in the Acadian calm of the on - coming Sabbath evening , like Gabriel in the story , we look up from beneath the trees , and wait and watch for the gleam of a lamp and a ...
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... dignity of virtue and the beauty of holiness . It is a source of thanksgiving that a goodly num- ber depart from college bearing that name which is above every other . Pardon loving plainness of speech ; BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS . 71.
... dignity of virtue and the beauty of holiness . It is a source of thanksgiving that a goodly num- ber depart from college bearing that name which is above every other . Pardon loving plainness of speech ; BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS . 71.
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... beauty growing out of the present chaotic relations of economics and ethics . Theoretical and practical social science will prove within fifty years , that commercial competi- tion and Christian benevolence rightly understood are not ...
... beauty growing out of the present chaotic relations of economics and ethics . Theoretical and practical social science will prove within fifty years , that commercial competi- tion and Christian benevolence rightly understood are not ...
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Page 215 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 135 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 223 - Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man : if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
Page 338 - I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony...
Page 184 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Page 220 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 114 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 384 - I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait, I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
Page 317 - But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors...
Page 384 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.