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... feeling and opinion , the entire omission of which would have done injustice to the author's convictions and been a poor compliment to the reader's liberality . It may be as well for the author to frankly own that , in giving these ...
... feeling and opinion , the entire omission of which would have done injustice to the author's convictions and been a poor compliment to the reader's liberality . It may be as well for the author to frankly own that , in giving these ...
Pagina 18
... feel kindly affections while unable to understand the simplest virtuous principle ; and he may begin to live acceptably to God before he has learned the name by which men call him . " no In the facts and statistics presented in the re ...
... feel kindly affections while unable to understand the simplest virtuous principle ; and he may begin to live acceptably to God before he has learned the name by which men call him . " no In the facts and statistics presented in the re ...
Pagina 24
... feeling of amazement and disgust . With a hard , brutal au- dacity , a blasphemous irreverence , and a sneering mockery which would do honor to the devil of Faust , it takes issue with the moral sense of man- kind and the precepts of ...
... feeling of amazement and disgust . With a hard , brutal au- dacity , a blasphemous irreverence , and a sneering mockery which would do honor to the devil of Faust , it takes issue with the moral sense of man- kind and the precepts of ...
Pagina 26
... feeling insults his readers . He assumes ( for he is one of those sublimated philosophers who reject the Baconian system of induction and depend upon intuition without re- course to facts and figures ) that the emancipated class in the ...
... feeling insults his readers . He assumes ( for he is one of those sublimated philosophers who reject the Baconian system of induction and depend upon intuition without re- course to facts and figures ) that the emancipated class in the ...
Pagina 34
... feel Mr. Carlyle's hand in the torture of his flesh , the rivet- ing of his fetters , and the denial of light to his mind . The free black will feel him too in the more contemptuous and abhorrent scowl of his brother man , who will ...
... feel Mr. Carlyle's hand in the torture of his flesh , the rivet- ing of his fetters , and the denial of light to his mind . The free black will feel him too in the more contemptuous and abhorrent scowl of his brother man , who will ...
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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.