Littell's Living Age, Volum 161Living Age Company Incorporated, 1884 |
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... idea which his work was illustrating . He had , indeed , a strong and conscious reverence for facts ; but it was for facts as revealing an order , a method , a purpose . His in- tense desire to sow seed , of principles and ideas , which ...
... idea which his work was illustrating . He had , indeed , a strong and conscious reverence for facts ; but it was for facts as revealing an order , a method , a purpose . His in- tense desire to sow seed , of principles and ideas , which ...
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... idea . He was the gentlest , most docile and affectionate of creatures ; but he was equally earnest in what he believed to be right , and energetic in the pursuit of his views . It may be thought an extravagant assertion , a mere formal ...
... idea . He was the gentlest , most docile and affectionate of creatures ; but he was equally earnest in what he believed to be right , and energetic in the pursuit of his views . It may be thought an extravagant assertion , a mere formal ...
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... idea has ever been pre- sented to his mind . " If this is so , it will follow that from this lady came the most ... ideas and principles , an intolerance of conventional fallacies , a defiance of the authority of the world , a power of ...
... idea has ever been pre- sented to his mind . " If this is so , it will follow that from this lady came the most ... ideas and principles , an intolerance of conventional fallacies , a defiance of the authority of the world , a power of ...
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... idea of the truth in the plainest and simplest lan- guage - language , as men say , intelligible to the meanest understanding ; but his burning zeal and his fine poetical imag . ination were not thus to be controlled . As I hung upon ...
... idea of the truth in the plainest and simplest lan- guage - language , as men say , intelligible to the meanest understanding ; but his burning zeal and his fine poetical imag . ination were not thus to be controlled . As I hung upon ...
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... idea that the God of love is a jealous God , and grudges earthly happi- has been passed on to so many good people in the present generation ; and it is in their spirit that Mr. Ornsby just " hesitates dislike " to Hope's entering the ...
... idea that the God of love is a jealous God , and grudges earthly happi- has been passed on to so many good people in the present generation ; and it is in their spirit that Mr. Ornsby just " hesitates dislike " to Hope's entering the ...
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Side 547 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Side 518 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Side 346 - And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Side 350 - And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Side 529 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Side 5 - ... kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree : the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Side 207 - They precisely suit my taste; solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of.
Side 472 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Side 539 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Side 210 - He told him, that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could put it in...