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Page v
... truth and manly integrity are improved also ? But it is time that I confine myself to the more immediate object of the present address , in which , in avoiding the exploded evil I have been reprobating , I would not affectedly run into ...
... truth and manly integrity are improved also ? But it is time that I confine myself to the more immediate object of the present address , in which , in avoiding the exploded evil I have been reprobating , I would not affectedly run into ...
Page x
... truths , which , if obvious and familiar , are yet practical , and of general application : things which , if of little show , are yet of some use ; and which , if their separate value be not great , yet their aggregate importance is ...
... truths , which , if obvious and familiar , are yet practical , and of general application : things which , if of little show , are yet of some use ; and which , if their separate value be not great , yet their aggregate importance is ...
Page xiv
... truth may be picked out from among many that are neglected ; some single sentiment may be seized on for present use ; some detached principle may be treasured up for future practice . If in the records of classic story we are told that ...
... truth may be picked out from among many that are neglected ; some single sentiment may be seized on for present use ; some detached principle may be treasured up for future practice . If in the records of classic story we are told that ...
Page xvii
... truth occurs . May this reflection , at once painful and salutary , be ever at hand to curb the in- solence of success , or to countervail the mor- tification of defeat ! May it serve to purify the motives of action , while it inspires ...
... truth occurs . May this reflection , at once painful and salutary , be ever at hand to curb the in- solence of success , or to countervail the mor- tification of defeat ! May it serve to purify the motives of action , while it inspires ...
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... TRUTH ! to bless these worthless lays : Nor impious is the hope ; for thou hast said , That none who ask in faith should ask in vain . You I invoke not now , ye fabled Nine ! I not invoke you , though you well were sought In Greece and ...
... TRUTH ! to bless these worthless lays : Nor impious is the hope ; for thou hast said , That none who ask in faith should ask in vain . You I invoke not now , ye fabled Nine ! I not invoke you , though you well were sought In Greece and ...
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Page 247 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 79 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 135 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 391 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 159 - A drop, dissevered from the boundless sea ; A moment, parted from eternity ; A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come ; An exile, anxious for his native home.
Page 84 - Not circumscrib'd by time not fix'd to space, Confin'd to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee...
Page 6 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 10 - O sad estate Of human wretchedness ! so weak is man, So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruin'd at our own request. Too well thou know'st, my child, the stern decree Of Egypt's cruel king, hard-hearted Pharaoh ; " That every male of Hebrew mother born
Page 173 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
Page 317 - FLORIO knew the WORLD ; that science Sets sense and learning at defiance ; He thought the World to him was known, Whereas he only knew the Tovm ; In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set — Mankind.