Brief Essays and Studies of CharacterRivingtons, 1874 - 176 sider |
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... beauty that lie around us in our human path ? that shall mould them into living forms , and breathe into them the breath of immortal life ? Assuredly it is not the privilege of any one human soul to effect , to attempt so much ; but ...
... beauty that lie around us in our human path ? that shall mould them into living forms , and breathe into them the breath of immortal life ? Assuredly it is not the privilege of any one human soul to effect , to attempt so much ; but ...
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... beauty , and its capacities for happiness ; to give us in a fuller , in a deeper sense than heretofore , the soundings of humanity . Literature is emi- nently a social voice , and the living words which its nobler pages speak are pre ...
... beauty , and its capacities for happiness ; to give us in a fuller , in a deeper sense than heretofore , the soundings of humanity . Literature is emi- nently a social voice , and the living words which its nobler pages speak are pre ...
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... susceptibilities of cultivation , as an influence of nobleness and beauty , need deeper con- sideration . Its essential simplicity will be no necessary sacrifice . its accepted purposes , raise their character . Then the The Church . 27.
... susceptibilities of cultivation , as an influence of nobleness and beauty , need deeper con- sideration . Its essential simplicity will be no necessary sacrifice . its accepted purposes , raise their character . Then the The Church . 27.
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... beauty so especially require . The priesthood comes into connexion with men in all relations of life , of all varieties of opinion and sentiment - men public and private , professional and unprofessional ; their very separateness gives ...
... beauty so especially require . The priesthood comes into connexion with men in all relations of life , of all varieties of opinion and sentiment - men public and private , professional and unprofessional ; their very separateness gives ...
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... who fails to ex- tend more effectually the hand of fellowship to the younger among his brotherhood of mankind ; or to realize more simply the dignity and beauty of that friendship with woman , which 48 The Priesthood .
... who fails to ex- tend more effectually the hand of fellowship to the younger among his brotherhood of mankind ; or to realize more simply the dignity and beauty of that friendship with woman , which 48 The Priesthood .
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accepted advance amongst appointed Arab Aurelian bear beauty become calling character chivalry Christ Christian Churchmen claim connexion Ctesiphon cultivation daughters Divine duc de Broglie earnest element elevated eloquence Emesa endowed energy equal especially essential Euphrates evil existence expression faculties faith feel force forms Gaul genius give harmony higher highest honour human nature idea impart impress impulse individual influence intellectual judgment labour lady laws literary literature living Lord lower Madame de Staël manhood manifested Marie Antoinette marriage ment mental Mesopotamia mind Nabal noble nobler observe Odenatus offer original Orpah Palmyra path perhaps Persian Port-Royal position pre-eminently present priest priesthood principles progress protection pure qualities Queen realized recognised relation religious reverence rise Roman Rome sacred Saracens Scripture Semiramis sentiment social soul speak sphere spiritual sympathy teachings testimony things thought tion tone Triumviri truth union unto virtue whilst woman womanhood women youth Zenobia
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Side 67 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from «• following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Side 136 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her D ' Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows...
Side 135 - Nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excel, In outward also her resembling less His Image who made both, and less expressing The character of that Dominion...
Side 136 - I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe...
Side 82 - Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia.
Side 86 - Zenobia would have ill deserved her reputation had she indolently permitted the Emperor of the West to approach within a hundred miles of her capital. The fate of the East was decided in two great battles, so similar, in almost every circumstance, that we can scarcely distinguish them from each other, except by observing that the first was fought near Antioch, and the second near Emesa.
Side 135 - O'er other Creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows...
Side 85 - ... in a military habit, and sometimes marched several miles on foot at the head of the troops. The success of Odenathus was in a great measure ascribed to her incomparable prudence and fortitude. Their splendid victories over the Great King, whom they twice pursued as far as the gates of Ctesiphon, laid the foundations of their united fame and power. The armies which they commanded, and the provinces which they had saved, acknowledged not any other sovereigns than their invincible chiefs. The senate...
Side 67 - So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
Side 92 - ... its shores in safety, with the intention of passing into Persia, and claiming protection from her new allies. She had escaped from Palmyra under the shadows of evening. Miraculously eluding the vigilance of the Roman outposts, she arrived, (probably by the wonderous fleetness of the dromedary,) * in the early morning at that point of the mighty river, beneath and above which, a tunnel and a bridge were supposed to have connected the two royal palaces of Babylon, which stood on either side. But...