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... Early Working Days , Coral , - 103 · 13 Seaweed , - 105 Hugh Miller . - Finding his First Fossils , History of Society during the The Pleasures of Imagination , 20 The Druids , Address to the Indolent , 1228 Plantagenets , - 107 The ...
... Early Working Days , Coral , - 103 · 13 Seaweed , - 105 Hugh Miller . - Finding his First Fossils , History of Society during the The Pleasures of Imagination , 20 The Druids , Address to the Indolent , 1228 Plantagenets , - 107 The ...
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... early a period of my life , that I should feel myself utterly oppressed by the burden , were I not sustained by the hope , that divine providence , which has called me to this work , will give me strength for the performance of it , and ...
... early a period of my life , that I should feel myself utterly oppressed by the burden , were I not sustained by the hope , that divine providence , which has called me to this work , will give me strength for the performance of it , and ...
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... EARLY WORKING DAYS . ( 1802-1856 ) . 1. It was twenty years last February ( 1841 ) since I set out , a little before sunrise , to make my first acquaintance with a life of labour and restraint ; and I have rarely had a heavier heart ...
... EARLY WORKING DAYS . ( 1802-1856 ) . 1. It was twenty years last February ( 1841 ) since I set out , a little before sunrise , to make my first acquaintance with a life of labour and restraint ; and I have rarely had a heavier heart ...
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... early spring which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year . All the workmen rested at mid - day , and I went to enjoy my half - hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood ...
... early spring which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year . All the workmen rested at mid - day , and I went to enjoy my half - hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood ...
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... rested . No workman ever manu- factures a half - worn article , and the stones were all half- worn ! And if not the bank , why then the sandstone beneath ? I was lost in conjecture , and found ( 8 ) B ' HUGH MILLER'S EARLY WORKING DAYS .
... rested . No workman ever manu- factures a half - worn article , and the stones were all half- worn ! And if not the bank , why then the sandstone beneath ? I was lost in conjecture , and found ( 8 ) B ' HUGH MILLER'S EARLY WORKING DAYS .
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Page 354 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 282 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?
Page 75 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 275 - ... resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 77 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 311 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 201 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Page 201 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.