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... genius that he came lineally from one 1 It is curious , that , when Cromwell proposed to transfer a colony from New England to Ireland , one of the conditions insisted on in Massachusetts was that a college should be es- tablished . who ...
... genius that he came lineally from one 1 It is curious , that , when Cromwell proposed to transfer a colony from New England to Ireland , one of the conditions insisted on in Massachusetts was that a college should be es- tablished . who ...
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... genius divine that ideal element in our early New England life , conceiving what must have been without asking proof of what actually was ! An extract or two will sufficiently exhibit Brewster in his lunes . Sending back some al ...
... genius divine that ideal element in our early New England life , conceiving what must have been without asking proof of what actually was ! An extract or two will sufficiently exhibit Brewster in his lunes . Sending back some al ...
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... genius , yet am almost persuaded to accept for some good grounds . " Tinker's modesty is most cred- itable to him , and we wish it were more common now . No people on the face of the earth suffer so much as we from impostors who keep in ...
... genius , yet am almost persuaded to accept for some good grounds . " Tinker's modesty is most cred- itable to him , and we wish it were more common now . No people on the face of the earth suffer so much as we from impostors who keep in ...
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... genius , " or , as we should now say , true patriotism . If Williams means no play on the word humanam and divinam , the order of precedence in which he marshals them is noticeable . A generation later , what Williams had predicted was ...
... genius , " or , as we should now say , true patriotism . If Williams means no play on the word humanam and divinam , the order of precedence in which he marshals them is noticeable . A generation later , what Williams had predicted was ...
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... genius at last ? Certainly Burns has suffered as much as most large - natured creatures from well - meaning efforts to account for him , to explain him away , to bring him into harmony with those well - regulated minds which , during a ...
... genius at last ? Certainly Burns has suffered as much as most large - natured creatures from well - meaning efforts to account for him , to explain him away , to bring him into harmony with those well - regulated minds which , during a ...
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Page 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Page 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Page 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Page 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Page 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Page 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.