Five Lessons for Young MenAlfred Southwick, 1837 - Počet stran: 198 |
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... causes of elevating the cha- racter of the city of Albany , for genius , learning and piety ; is the ardent prayer of its unaffected , though inefficient friend and well wisher . Albany , July 15 , 1837 . THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE ...
... causes of elevating the cha- racter of the city of Albany , for genius , learning and piety ; is the ardent prayer of its unaffected , though inefficient friend and well wisher . Albany , July 15 , 1837 . THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . THE ...
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... cause if enlightened , in the true sense of the term , and on a broad scale , the reign of those ty- rannical and despotic governments would cease ; and the people would resort to self - government , as a rational consequence of their ...
... cause if enlightened , in the true sense of the term , and on a broad scale , the reign of those ty- rannical and despotic governments would cease ; and the people would resort to self - government , as a rational consequence of their ...
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... cause , saved him from as- sassination : Now the virtue did not lay in the fighting of itself - for in itself fighting can never be a virtue , and much less a christian virtue- but to fight on such an occasion , in such a cause , to ...
... cause , saved him from as- sassination : Now the virtue did not lay in the fighting of itself - for in itself fighting can never be a virtue , and much less a christian virtue- but to fight on such an occasion , in such a cause , to ...
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... cause of litera- ture , science or religion ; such , for example , as the exhibitions of Mr. CATLIN , now going on , and which deserve the attention of all who wish to become acquainted with the real history and characteristics of THE ...
... cause of litera- ture , science or religion ; such , for example , as the exhibitions of Mr. CATLIN , now going on , and which deserve the attention of all who wish to become acquainted with the real history and characteristics of THE ...
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... cause the right sort of persons have never been engaged in conducting it . It never will be well conducted , because the description of persons alluded to , can never be drawn off from more pure and elevated pursuits to assume the ma ...
... cause the right sort of persons have never been engaged in conducting it . It never will be well conducted , because the description of persons alluded to , can never be drawn off from more pure and elevated pursuits to assume the ma ...
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Strana 26 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is all Nature cries aloud through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 28 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Strana 164 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Strana 27 - I'm weary of conjectures : — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end; But this informs me I shall never die.
Strana 16 - My name is Norval ! on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks : a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home.
Strana 119 - Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will...
Strana 35 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Strana 119 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Strana 86 - How ill exchanged are things like these for thee ! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! Kingdoms by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
Strana 196 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.