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Pagina 43
... By the Baron Wilhelm . Von Humboldt . From the German . With an Introduction by Dr. Stebbing . Published by Hall and Virtue . were addressed , as the charm of her existence ; WILLIAM HUMBOLDT'S LETTERS TO A FEMALE FRIEND . 43.
... By the Baron Wilhelm . Von Humboldt . From the German . With an Introduction by Dr. Stebbing . Published by Hall and Virtue . were addressed , as the charm of her existence ; WILLIAM HUMBOLDT'S LETTERS TO A FEMALE FRIEND . 43.
Pagina 44
were addressed , as the charm of her existence ; and | fate which is to prepare him for his higher desti- she determined that after her death they should not be lost to the public - at least about half of them ; the others were withheld ...
were addressed , as the charm of her existence ; and | fate which is to prepare him for his higher desti- she determined that after her death they should not be lost to the public - at least about half of them ; the others were withheld ...
Pagina 45
... existence the one to the other , yet of mind when , setting aside all ordinary consider- receive it back again in a brighter and purer form . ations , you wrote down the conclusions at which A man must possess some external object to ...
... existence the one to the other , yet of mind when , setting aside all ordinary consider- receive it back again in a brighter and purer form . ations , you wrote down the conclusions at which A man must possess some external object to ...
Pagina 50
... existence of such a state of things involved no contemptible amount of homely virtue and thrift ; and whoever observes how often rapid progress is followed by rapid downfall , may trace a law of compensation , as he compares the ...
... existence of such a state of things involved no contemptible amount of homely virtue and thrift ; and whoever observes how often rapid progress is followed by rapid downfall , may trace a law of compensation , as he compares the ...
Pagina 75
... existence ; but as for me , I was entombed alive in my own body— destined , perhaps , to die hideously and loath- somely , as my corporeal particles putrefied and decomposed . I had read , too , of miserable vic- tims who , being buried ...
... existence ; but as for me , I was entombed alive in my own body— destined , perhaps , to die hideously and loath- somely , as my corporeal particles putrefied and decomposed . I had read , too , of miserable vic- tims who , being buried ...
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Pagina 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pagina 14 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Pagina 89 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Pagina 305 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Pagina 141 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Pagina 258 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Pagina 146 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her, 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Pagina 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.