The great experiment, Volume 2

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Page 249 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Page 290 - But, as he lay in the morning light, his face for a moment Seemed to assume once more the forms of its earlier manhood ; So are wont to be changed the faces of those who are dying.
Page 366 - Luke to say of them that they "spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Page 269 - How long wilt thou not depart from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? I have sinned ; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself? And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, And take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Page 335 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 349 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...
Page 146 - Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Page 366 - Damaris to lay aside her gay attire and plaiting of the hair, and to put on a garb becoming to a Christian woman. <* "^ On one occasion, when Damaris has been chosen to fill the chief place among the maidens of the city in the Pan-Athenaic procession, a tumult arises, because Damaris, chosen against her will, appears in homely dress, and refuses to take part in the idolatrous ceremony. The house in which the Apostle and his converts are living is surrounded by a mob, who accuse him of having obtained...
Page 307 - Can a mother forget her child that she should not have compassion on the son of her wonib 1 And albeit she should forget, yet I will not forget thee; Behold, 1 have noted thee in My hands, 25. In this (namely, in God's mercy), the new man doth arise, and springeth up in the kingdom of Heaven and Paradise, though the earthly body be in this world. 26. For Saint...

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