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... look , on the loss of all the other members of his family — may have led him to dwell on scenes , which , however dear to his own heart , from those numerous and powerful asso- ciations , of which he alone is conscious , may pre- sent ...
... look , on the loss of all the other members of his family — may have led him to dwell on scenes , which , however dear to his own heart , from those numerous and powerful asso- ciations , of which he alone is conscious , may pre- sent ...
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... look back on ONE act of disobedience , or ONE moral delinquency of his son . That son was , unquestion- ably , conscious of his own imperfections before God ; and sought , through the mediation of a Saviour , the pardon of his sins ...
... look back on ONE act of disobedience , or ONE moral delinquency of his son . That son was , unquestion- ably , conscious of his own imperfections before God ; and sought , through the mediation of a Saviour , the pardon of his sins ...
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... look upon it as a speculation at all . I think the education you have given me would enable me to attain respectable competence of fortune ( I desire no more ) and considerable professional eminence , together with more submissive ...
... look upon it as a speculation at all . I think the education you have given me would enable me to attain respectable competence of fortune ( I desire no more ) and considerable professional eminence , together with more submissive ...
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... look elsewhere for re- creation ; we desert our master , and seek for companions . ” * While looking for the above extract in Johnson's life of our poet , after I had prepared for the press the remarks in this page , I met with the ...
... look elsewhere for re- creation ; we desert our master , and seek for companions . ” * While looking for the above extract in Johnson's life of our poet , after I had prepared for the press the remarks in this page , I met with the ...
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... look forward ? All is darkness . Does he look backward ? All is error . Does he look around ? There is no light to guide him . - The wit , dazzled with his own brilliance , shines like a meteor , astonishing all around him , by his ...
... look forward ? All is darkness . Does he look backward ? All is error . Does he look around ? There is no light to guide him . - The wit , dazzled with his own brilliance , shines like a meteor , astonishing all around him , by his ...
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Page 8 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 61 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Page 2 - The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 62 - Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions.
Page 38 - I was thunderstruck, and almost distracted ; for the information seemed to blast my most cherished hopes. This might, I thought, be the commencement of a series of evils for ever ruinous to our peace. I am not sure that my agony, on hearing of his death, was much more intense than that which I then endured, from an apprehension of his guilt.
Page 87 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 32 - But the Lamb, which is in the " midst of the throne, shall feed us, and lead us to
Page 4 - Thou embryo angel, or thou infant fiend, A being now begun, but ne'er to end, What boding fears a father's heart torment, Trembling and anxious for the grand event, Lest thy young soul, so late by Heaven bestowed, Forget her Father and forget her God ! — Lest, while...
Page 4 - Lest, while imprison' d in this house of clay, " To tyrant lusts she fall a helpless prey ! " And lest, descending still from bad to worse, " Her immortality should prove her curse ! " Maker of souls ! avert so dire a doom, " Or snatch her back to native Nothing's gloom !
Page 24 - Eut it is not fair, that all this looseness, and all this variety should be still floating in the world, in the face of an authoritative communication from God Himself. Had no message come to us from the fountain head of truth, it were natural enough for every individual mind to betake itself to its own speculation. But a message has come to us, bearing on its forehead every character of authenticity ; and is it right now, that the question of our faith, or of our duty, should be committed to the...