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... moral inaction of the middle ages , it was a necessary consequence of the state of society , that the poet should hold a more discernible elevation above the mass of minds around him . Poetry was then leagued with superstitious dread ...
... moral inaction of the middle ages , it was a necessary consequence of the state of society , that the poet should hold a more discernible elevation above the mass of minds around him . Poetry was then leagued with superstitious dread ...
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... moral miracle . We cannot but see that sometimes the kingdom of hea- ven comes with manifest power . We look back to certain eras as turning points and new foundations ; to certain men as having had a special work of edification ; to ...
... moral miracle . We cannot but see that sometimes the kingdom of hea- ven comes with manifest power . We look back to certain eras as turning points and new foundations ; to certain men as having had a special work of edification ; to ...
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... moral instinct . It is found as a ruling and moulding and active principle in every soul , from the most cherished ... morals , the logician , the pedant , the pedagogue and the proser , are unpalatable and indigestible to one's ...
... moral instinct . It is found as a ruling and moulding and active principle in every soul , from the most cherished ... morals , the logician , the pedant , the pedagogue and the proser , are unpalatable and indigestible to one's ...
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... moral waste , and attuning men's hearts to love and reverence : even now we see it a refuge there , as here , from the storms of party , the asperities of schism , the deadness of the world , and the bleak desolation of unbelief . Thus ...
... moral waste , and attuning men's hearts to love and reverence : even now we see it a refuge there , as here , from the storms of party , the asperities of schism , the deadness of the world , and the bleak desolation of unbelief . Thus ...
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... moral ; it must partake in some mea- sure of the nature of expediency , and must change in form and fashion to suit the varying condition of the social being it is intended to preserve . You cannot confine a gas in the same vessel which ...
... moral ; it must partake in some mea- sure of the nature of expediency , and must change in form and fashion to suit the varying condition of the social being it is intended to preserve . You cannot confine a gas in the same vessel which ...
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Page 495 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, . No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Page 162 - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Page 478 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid, or far away over boundless seas and deserts to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Page 479 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 399 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Page 330 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 480 - ... urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Page 478 - ... of gibraltar against the fleets and armies of france and spain the long procession was closed by the duke of norfolk earl marshal of the realm by the great dignitaries and by the brothers and sons of the king last of all came the prince of wales conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing...
Page 328 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Page 480 - ... comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.