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Pagina 22
... side of the meeting - house . Tongues were bored with redhot irons and ears shorn off . The jails were loathsome dungeons , swarming with ver- - - min , unventilated , unwarmed . A century 22 Recreations and Miscellanies .
... side of the meeting - house . Tongues were bored with redhot irons and ears shorn off . The jails were loathsome dungeons , swarming with ver- - - min , unventilated , unwarmed . A century 22 Recreations and Miscellanies .
Pagina 28
... side of the oppressor there is power " ; let him use it without mercy , and hold flesh and blood to the grindstone with unrelenting rigor . Humanity is squeamish- ness ; pity for the suffering mere " rose - pink senti- mentalism ...
... side of the oppressor there is power " ; let him use it without mercy , and hold flesh and blood to the grindstone with unrelenting rigor . Humanity is squeamish- ness ; pity for the suffering mere " rose - pink senti- mentalism ...
Pagina 29
... side of the Tweed . This interesting couple reared , as they best could , a family of children , who , in turn , became the heads of families ; and some time about the beginning of . the present century one of their descendants in the ...
... side of the Tweed . This interesting couple reared , as they best could , a family of children , who , in turn , became the heads of families ; and some time about the beginning of . the present century one of their descendants in the ...
Pagina 36
... side ; or rather , he seems to us very much in the condition of the coal - burner in the German tale , who had swapped his heart of flesh for a cob- ble - stone . • IN ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II . * N accordance 36 Recreations and ...
... side ; or rather , he seems to us very much in the condition of the coal - burner in the German tale , who had swapped his heart of flesh for a cob- ble - stone . • IN ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II . * N accordance 36 Recreations and ...
Pagina 49
... side of tolerance and charity , the zeal of the prelates for preserving the integrity of the British constitution and the limiting of the royal power flamed up into rebellion . They forswore themselves without scruple : the disciples of ...
... side of tolerance and charity , the zeal of the prelates for preserving the integrity of the British constitution and the limiting of the royal power flamed up into rebellion . They forswore themselves without scruple : the disciples of ...
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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.