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... desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side ; and whose personal and private worth are always bet- ter understood than expressed . It has been happily said of him , that he never wastes a word , or a drop of ...
... desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side ; and whose personal and private worth are always bet- ter understood than expressed . It has been happily said of him , that he never wastes a word , or a drop of ...
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... desire of the mind to pro- ject itself from the known into the unknown , in the ex- pectation of finding what it is in search of . " This power of divination , this sagacity , which is the mother of all science , we may call ...
... desire of the mind to pro- ject itself from the known into the unknown , in the ex- pectation of finding what it is in search of . " This power of divination , this sagacity , which is the mother of all science , we may call ...
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... Desires , and on Study , we would have everybody to read and enjoy . the Sedgwick is a different , and , as a whole , an inferior man ; but a man every inch of him , and an Englishman too , in his thoughts , and in his fine mother wit ...
... Desires , and on Study , we would have everybody to read and enjoy . the Sedgwick is a different , and , as a whole , an inferior man ; but a man every inch of him , and an Englishman too , in his thoughts , and in his fine mother wit ...
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... desire or other : for he that doth not affect some one thing in chief , unto him all things are distasteful and tedious . ” We will not spoil this little volume by giving any ac count of it . Let our readers get it , 58 WITH BRAINS , SIR .
... desire or other : for he that doth not affect some one thing in chief , unto him all things are distasteful and tedious . ” We will not spoil this little volume by giving any ac count of it . Let our readers get it , 58 WITH BRAINS , SIR .
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... desire to know to what besides I am chiefly indebted for so enviable a lot , I would say : 1st , Because I had the good fortune to come into the world with a healthful frame , and with a sanguine tem- perament . 2d , Because I had no ...
... desire to know to what besides I am chiefly indebted for so enviable a lot , I would say : 1st , Because I had the good fortune to come into the world with a healthful frame , and with a sanguine tem- perament . 2d , Because I had no ...
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Seite 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Seite 195 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Seite 349 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 327 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Seite 244 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Seite 210 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Seite 432 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Seite 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Seite 291 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Seite 203 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...