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... freedom , which the utmost reach of fancy can attempt . To combine the thoroughly scholastic , with the entirely practical , is , in a single word , its clear and constant aim . ii . It shrinks not from the full avowal of the Ancient ...
... freedom , which the utmost reach of fancy can attempt . To combine the thoroughly scholastic , with the entirely practical , is , in a single word , its clear and constant aim . ii . It shrinks not from the full avowal of the Ancient ...
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... hidden power , and disentangles it , and gives it freedom ; and the electric spark , that it has waked , shall flash , from pole to pole ; astonish earth ; and flood the heavens , with light . What it 20 THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRACTICAL ,
... hidden power , and disentangles it , and gives it freedom ; and the electric spark , that it has waked , shall flash , from pole to pole ; astonish earth ; and flood the heavens , with light . What it 20 THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRACTICAL ,
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... freedom of a nation ; the wealth , the power , the grandeur , the ex- istence , of a State ! But , I must circumscribe my range . I am to deal with individuals , now . This is the civil birth - day of fourteen young men . To - day ...
... freedom of a nation ; the wealth , the power , the grandeur , the ex- istence , of a State ! But , I must circumscribe my range . I am to deal with individuals , now . This is the civil birth - day of fourteen young men . To - day ...
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... freedom . For circumstances is but a longer word , for fate ; and , one less invidious , for necessity . We are but atoms in the atmosphere of space . And Plato , Dante , Shakspeare , have but to whirl , in vortices , forever . Who will ...
... freedom . For circumstances is but a longer word , for fate ; and , one less invidious , for necessity . We are but atoms in the atmosphere of space . And Plato , Dante , Shakspeare , have but to whirl , in vortices , forever . Who will ...
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... freedom . A sparrow does not fall , without our Father . Nor , a hair is black or white , but as He wills . Yet , Liebig will reveal to you the glands , by which the colouring matter is distributed , to each particular hair . And the ...
... freedom . A sparrow does not fall , without our Father . Nor , a hair is black or white , but as He wills . Yet , Liebig will reveal to you the glands , by which the colouring matter is distributed , to each particular hair . And the ...
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Page 445 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Page 294 - Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot...
Page 464 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that •which is to come : and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 40 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 381 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 154 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 8 - He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed : shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.
Page 193 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 444 - How that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 355 - UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. We know what master laid thy keel; What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel; Who made each mast and sail and rope; What anvils rang, what hammers beat; In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.