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Pagina 6
... young were to obey their parents , and to prefer father , mother , brother , sister , wife , and friend to themselves . They drew beautiful pictures of a country blessed with peace , industry , and love , covered with no disgusting ...
... young were to obey their parents , and to prefer father , mother , brother , sister , wife , and friend to themselves . They drew beautiful pictures of a country blessed with peace , industry , and love , covered with no disgusting ...
Pagina 7
... young Egyptian , educated at Thebes by the priests of Osiris , desirous of bene- fiting humanity , undertakes a voyage to Gaul for the purpose of carrying thither the arts and religion of Egypt . He is shipwrecked on his return in the ...
... young Egyptian , educated at Thebes by the priests of Osiris , desirous of bene- fiting humanity , undertakes a voyage to Gaul for the purpose of carrying thither the arts and religion of Egypt . He is shipwrecked on his return in the ...
Pagina 8
... young daughter , to whom he had seen none worthy to be compared , and of the pleasure which he promised himself the next day , at the festival on Mount Lyceum , of be- holding a whole people as happy as this seques- tered family ...
... young daughter , to whom he had seen none worthy to be compared , and of the pleasure which he promised himself the next day , at the festival on Mount Lyceum , of be- holding a whole people as happy as this seques- tered family ...
Pagina 11
... young woman find a lover and every lover a true wife ; may the young be trained aright- ly and guarded from evil ; may the old close their days in the tranquil hope of those who love God and their fellow - men . " We are reminded of the ...
... young woman find a lover and every lover a true wife ; may the young be trained aright- ly and guarded from evil ; may the old close their days in the tranquil hope of those who love God and their fellow - men . " We are reminded of the ...
Pagina 73
... young man he had in his house , he commanded him , willed she , nilled she , to go to her bed , which was no sooner done than she thrust him out again . This she took in high disdain beyond her slavery ; and this was the cause of her ...
... young man he had in his house , he commanded him , willed she , nilled she , to go to her bed , which was no sooner done than she thrust him out again . This she took in high disdain beyond her slavery ; and this was the cause of her ...
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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.