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Page 188 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 301 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 124 - I have stood where I could see the rustling throng issue from the mill as the bell rang and the gates were thrown open, and what I saw were no longer manly men, but men of stooping forms and hopeless faces, women dispirited, slovenly and aimless, and children, the hope of the country...
Page 254 - Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 164 - ... and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the estimation of the General Conference, will greatly embarrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant General Superintendent, if not in some places entirely prevent it; therefore, Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this office so long as this impediment remains.
Page 254 - So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 197 - in his seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed...
Page 125 - ... the embryos of an emasculated adulthood ; the whole crowd, where once were seen fine specimens of manhood, now a sorry spectacle of overtasked, exhausted and despondent humanity, veritable mudsills of society. Such is now the sight where I have looked. The improvements have been of machinery, but not of humanity. They have benefited the capitalist, and not the laborer. "The operatives...
Page 142 - And pretty stuff they made of it. As for their Eadical allies, we may add from the same source, as their particular object, " Sufficeth then, the good old plan, That they may take who have the power, And they may keep who can.
Page 248 - States — in order to form a more perfect Union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States of America.