The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions Calculated to Promote the Comfort and Happiness of Man, Bind 5Longman and Company, 1815 |
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... characters of both sexes . It is well known what is the contagion of evil example ; especially upon the susceptible mind of the young . The general rule is , that in an assemblage of persons living to- gether , all become by instruction ...
... characters of both sexes . It is well known what is the contagion of evil example ; especially upon the susceptible mind of the young . The general rule is , that in an assemblage of persons living to- gether , all become by instruction ...
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... character and in con- duct ; and by a sort of necessity are formed to depravity in cha- racter , and to a readiness for depravity of conduct , as often as opportunity and temptation present themselves . Can it be a matter of surprise ...
... character and in con- duct ; and by a sort of necessity are formed to depravity in cha- racter , and to a readiness for depravity of conduct , as often as opportunity and temptation present themselves . Can it be a matter of surprise ...
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... character of our population is so good ; that their profligacy is so mitigated ; their crimes so rare ; their virtues both so general and so high . It affords the most cheer- ing prospect with regard to the future , when all the causes ...
... character of our population is so good ; that their profligacy is so mitigated ; their crimes so rare ; their virtues both so general and so high . It affords the most cheer- ing prospect with regard to the future , when all the causes ...
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... character of the nursery maid , is of no small importance . Who shall calculate the evils that have resulted , and that are daily resulting , from this fruitful source , not only to the children thus corrupted , but through them to ...
... character of the nursery maid , is of no small importance . Who shall calculate the evils that have resulted , and that are daily resulting , from this fruitful source , not only to the children thus corrupted , but through them to ...
Side 8
... character depends . The choice of the nursery maid is of far more importance than that of the literary instructor . - Inferior to us in many points of knowledge , in this , the Greeks and Romans were decidedly superior . They took ...
... character depends . The choice of the nursery maid is of far more importance than that of the literary instructor . - Inferior to us in many points of knowledge , in this , the Greeks and Romans were decidedly superior . They took ...
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Side 346 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields— like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main— why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Side 363 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only ; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power ; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Side 346 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted: — and how exquisitely, too—- Theme this but little heard of among men—- The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Side 279 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Side 346 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and, awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Side 283 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps "Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive "Martyrs...
Side 349 - And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffered no request; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect...
Side 348 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Side 347 - The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come ; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets : upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight ; that my Song With star-like virtue in its place may shine, Shedding benignant influence, and secure, Itself, from all malevolent effect Of those mutations that extend their sway Throughout the nether sphere...
Side 347 - Contemplating ; and who and what he was, The transitory being that beheld . This vision, when and where and how he lived...