Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II . THE TWO PROCESSIONS EVANGELINE · PAGE I II 24 37 58 63 A CHAPTER OF HISTORY FAME AND GLORY · 72 85 FANATICISM . 94 THE BORDER WAR OF 1708 . 100 THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT 112 LORD ASHLEY AND THE THIEVES 122 MIRTH ...
... ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II . THE TWO PROCESSIONS EVANGELINE · PAGE I II 24 37 58 63 A CHAPTER OF HISTORY FAME AND GLORY · 72 85 FANATICISM . 94 THE BORDER WAR OF 1708 . 100 THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT 112 LORD ASHLEY AND THE THIEVES 122 MIRTH ...
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... England ; and the republican plan of government which he describes with much minuteness is such as he would have recommended for adoption in case a free com- monwealth had been established . It deals some- what severely with Cromwell's ...
... England ; and the republican plan of government which he describes with much minuteness is such as he would have recommended for adoption in case a free com- monwealth had been established . It deals some- what severely with Cromwell's ...
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... England scenery . From this place the atmosphere and associations of the prison are excluded . The discipline is strict , as a matter of course ; but it is that of a well - regulated home or school - room , order , neatness , and har ...
... England scenery . From this place the atmosphere and associations of the prison are excluded . The discipline is strict , as a matter of course ; but it is that of a well - regulated home or school - room , order , neatness , and har ...
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... England- " the broad- brimmed philanthropists of Exeter Hall " — there would have been small occasion for noticing his splenetic and discreditable production . Doubtless there is a cant of philanthropy - the alloy of human frailty and ...
... England- " the broad- brimmed philanthropists of Exeter Hall " — there would have been small occasion for noticing his splenetic and discreditable production . Doubtless there is a cant of philanthropy - the alloy of human frailty and ...
Pagina 28
... England . In the Discourse on Negro Slavery we see this devilish philosophy in full bloom . The gods , he tells us , are with the strong . Might has a divine right to rule , blessed are the crafty of brain and strong of hand ! Weakness ...
... England . In the Discourse on Negro Slavery we see this devilish philosophy in full bloom . The gods , he tells us , are with the strong . Might has a divine right to rule , blessed are the crafty of brain and strong of hand ! Weakness ...
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The prose works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2 John Greenleaf Whittier Volledige weergave - 1880 |
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Pagina 279 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 122 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Pagina 136 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Pagina 214 - But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Pagina 274 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Pagina 395 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 156 - Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Pagina 43 - But on all this misery society looked with profound indifference. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the...
Pagina 246 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 393 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.