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Pagina 24
... them , can afford to give , the author considers himself justified in denouncing negro emancipation as one of the " shams " which he was specially sent into this ― world to belabor . Had he confined himself to simple.
... them , can afford to give , the author considers himself justified in denouncing negro emancipation as one of the " shams " which he was specially sent into this ― world to belabor . Had he confined himself to simple.
Pagina 37
... give effect and vividness to his thoughts and diction , he is often overstrained and extravagant , and that his epigram- matic style seems better fitted for the glitter of paradox than the sober guise of truth . The in- telligent and ...
... give effect and vividness to his thoughts and diction , he is often overstrained and extravagant , and that his epigram- matic style seems better fitted for the glitter of paradox than the sober guise of truth . The in- telligent and ...
Pagina 45
... give such a savage relish to his de- lineation of Barrere . To preserve the consistency of this character , he denies the king any credit for whatever was really beneficent and praiseworthy in his government . He holds up the royal ...
... give such a savage relish to his de- lineation of Barrere . To preserve the consistency of this character , he denies the king any credit for whatever was really beneficent and praiseworthy in his government . He holds up the royal ...
Pagina 57
... give the truth . Dr. King , of Oxford , in his Anecdotes of his Own Times , p . 185 , says : " I knew Burnet : he was a furious party - man , and easily imposed upon by any lying spirit of his faction ; but he was a better pastor than ...
... give the truth . Dr. King , of Oxford , in his Anecdotes of his Own Times , p . 185 , says : " I knew Burnet : he was a furious party - man , and easily imposed upon by any lying spirit of his faction ; but he was a better pastor than ...
Pagina 67
... give them ! Let us repeat that prayer in the hour when the wicked assail us ; Let us repeat it now , and say , O Father , forgive them ! " How does this simple prayer of the Acadians con- trast with the " deep damnation of their taking ...
... give them ! Let us repeat that prayer in the hour when the wicked assail us ; Let us repeat it now , and say , O Father , forgive them ! " How does this simple prayer of the Acadians con- trast with the " deep damnation of their taking ...
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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.